works were started
Penco began yesterday dreaming of a new city. That's because after 14 years of waiting, began to build the pass circuit that allows you to take Route 150 to the center of the city and end the heavy trucks passing by the Plaza de Armas.
Although the contract was signed by the MOP in February, during this period were developed detailed engineering studies and took shape much of the expropriations.
The result was the design of a single carriageway road of 3.8 km, starting at 500 meters from the junction of Highway Itata and will pass within about 60 meters above sea level, through hills and ravines of Penco.
To achieve large cuts are made and built seven viaducts, the largest of 175 meters long, with strains of 35 meters high, on brook Penco. To start
chores are done at noon yesterday a ceremony a few feet from where the bridge will be located very close to the Penco School E-587, which was headed by the mayor Maria Soledad Tohá Veloso.
attended the National Director of Highways MOP, Vicente Díaz Pardo, Mayor Guillermo Caceres Collao, the general manager of Port of Lirquén Philipi Juan Manuel Gutierrez, as well as parliamentarians and other officials.
The project represents an investment of $ 9,507 million, of which most of the funds the Department of Roads of the MOP, with a $ 2 billion of Government (FNDR) and $ 1,500 million Lirquén Port.
The works are by Constructora Consorcio PV and COP Limited and the contract period is April 2008.
The Intendant Tohá Penco noted that the pass circuit is part of the regional development strategy that seeks to consolidate access ports, so as to facilitate exports.
mentioned that already have improved access to the port of Coronel, San Vicente and Talcahuano, so missing Lirquén port.
tourism boom
Penco Mayor, Guillermo Caceres Collao, recalled that the project was handled for 14 years, being committed by the government of Ricardo Lagos. For this village headman pass circuit will improve the quality of life of the city, to avoid noise, vibration, deterioration of pavements and risk of traffic accidents caused by the daily passage of seven thousand trucks, mostly with forest products and containers con destino al Puerto de Lirquén.
Esto significará que Penco podrá orientarse en forma más decidida hacia el turismo, al poder ofrecer tranquilidad y seguridad, que hoy no puede debido al intenso flujo de camiones. Espera que esto permita un despegue turístico, con una revalorización de las propiedades ubicadas en el borde costero y el desarrollo de nuevos proyectos inmobiliarios.
La materialización del proyecto, destacó, se logró gracias a los aportes del Gobierno Regional y la empresa portuaria, que complementaron los recursos del MOP.
Dudas pendientes
Pese a las buenas noticias para Penco, algunos de los asistentes también hicieron public concerns for the development of the work. The port manager Lirquén, Juan Manuel Gutierrez, raised the need to accelerate the expropriation missing MOP for the company provided during the summer of the entire strip of land and can proceed as scheduled.
addition, among the grounds for vacating are the 20 families who have no title deeds, to which the Programa Chile Barrio and the municipality undertook to eradicate their new homes in January 2007.
Another major benefit from this project is the community of Tomé, because the travel time will be shortened Concepción about 10 minutes. It is not clear, yet, if use of the pass circuit will be mandatory for all trucks or collective locomotion Tomé. These decisions will be taken when the pass circuit is completed, officials said.
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* Daily, Wednesday, October 25, 2006.
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