Route des Tamarins

In order to ensure a continuous connection of highway type between the various parts of the territory réunionnais, a project of connection with 2x2 ways connecting Saint-Paul to Pond-Salted the by the first slopes of the High of the west was elaborate as of the middle of the Eighties.

It is about the road of Tamarins , thus named by reference to the Tamarinier.

This 32 kilometers length axis whose preliminary work was started in 2003 will make it possible to carry out a continuous connection in 2x2 ways between Saint-Denis in north and Saint-Pierre in the south.

On the whole, the road of Tamarins will cross more than 120 Ravine S, including twenty by the means of works of art not currents and three by the means of exceptional constructions, for example with height of Three-Basins.

In north, it will start with a Viaduc whose work started in November 2005. Length 756 27 meters meters and broad, it will connect by a 2x3 ways and according to a slope of 6% the pond of Saint-Paul to Plateau Stone. Its pillar highest will culminate with 35 meters. It will be prolonged by a Tunnel of 150 meters in the Falaise.

The delivery of the axis is envisaged in the current of the year 2008. It will precede a road then making the turn of the island by the High desired in its time by the governor Louis Henri Hubert Delisle.

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Pages of the Departmental management of the Meeting devoted to the Road of Tamarins

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