Journal SOUTH. Concepción, Chile, Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Minvu announced investment of $ 600 million Seremi
says project is not incompatible with the idea of \u200b\u200bburying the line. For
Rolleri Nello V.
"This is an outrage, with all its letters. It is a gateway that is to finally bury the proposed undergrounding of the railway that the city expects. "
This was raised yesterday by the consulting architect of the Municipality of Concepcion, Baeriswyl Sergio Rada, consulted on the initiative presented by the SEREMI Housing for the sector of the Coast.
is a walkway about 90 meters long, to join the Bicentennial Plaza in Central Park, specifically in the area which houses the Monument of the Disappeared.
The gateway, as the project entered by the Minvu the Planning Ministry, will be built at the height of East Central Street, between O'Higgins and Barros Arana, and will require an investment of $ 600 million.
The SEREMI Carlos Arzola, on a recent visit to the area of \u200b\u200bconstruction of the Bicentennial Plaza, along with representatives of the Chilean Chamber of Construction, announced the decision to build that bridge, though simultaneously is MINVU calling a tender for a feasibility study of the burial of the railway, with a budget close to $ 180 million.
Arzola said, at that time, the gateway is incompatible with the burial.
To Baeriswyl "not logical" to invest $ 600 million in a catwalk after will have "no use", which by its huge size will not be used by the community.
By way of comparison, the pedestrian bridge that built the Plaza Mall on Highway Clover Concepcion-Talcahuano cost just over $ 100 million.
According to the architect of the municipality penquista, this project is inconsistent what has openly expressed the government that will be the burial of the railway.
This is a decisive factor for interest in buying private land in the sector, considering that all bids Serviu batch after the railroad have been deserted.
three-story height
to build this "megapasarela" due to 9-meter gauge railways required for structures on the railway, the gateway should have a height over 10 meters, ie, be required people upload the equivalent of a three-story building, said Baeriswyl.
For architect scales and related structures would double the 90 meters it is necessary to cross, so that in total the work would measure about 200 meters long, what an investment called "monstrous" for something that will not use.
He suggested that a fraction of that amount, $ 30 or $ 40 million, could become the current pedestrian crossing station in an Design of Biotren at automated and more secure. Missing definitions
Retrieved Zelada Antonio architect and academic, said that seems a bit hasty decision to build a bridge when it is uncertain what will happen to the idea of \u200b\u200bburying the road railway.
The rationale, he said, is to first evaluate whether it is feasible in economic terms this initiative.
If that does not completely rule out, then you can think of another solution.
To Zelada also is concerned that it is intended to install this gateway, considering that there is no definition for the future Central Railway Station Design. Ideally
be built in underground, like a subway station, allowing pedestrian traffic. If not, what corresponds is made on the surface. -----------------------
Concepción, Chile, Thursday July 12, 2007
Jacqueline van Rysselberghe Mayor
lead campaign against "megapasarela"
Although project has not been officially presented, Mayor absolutely rejects the idea of \u200b\u200bMinvu.
defendant who intends to waste a figure close to $ 750 million. Nello Rolleri
Veloso
For
nrolleri@diarioelsur.cl
The "megapasarela" which aims to lift the Ministry of Housing in the Coastal and found his public enemy number one: the Mayor Jacqueline van Rysselberghe.
The community leader expressed his shock and amazement when he heard that the government is about to call a tender for $ 150 million to design the structure, and that there is another $ 600 million available for construction.
recalled that President Michelle Bachelet has pledged to advance the project of burying the railroad in the Conception Coast, so there is no justification to build a walkway.
He said that with $ 750 billion could build a school or clinic, you could fix all the sidewalks of downtown site, or you could end up the boulevard to the Plaza Barros Arana Spain.
"We have a million projects more important than that. It may be that public money is not the government, but in all Chileans, thus wasted, "he cried. Summoned the Intendant Maria Soledad Tohá to review the project and to consider community input penquista before making a final decision.
He said he talked the matter with the Housing Minister Patricia Poblete Bennett, but was left with the impression that Secretary of State believes that penquista are calling for a footbridge over the railway and has the support of neighbors, unions and professional associations, which in his opinion is not true.
"It has been said that this is a city government, then I ask you to listen to the voice of the people penquista. And I'm the mayor, democratically elected representative.
to me nobody has designated this position. " Alternative
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The problem of the railway sector in the Coast does not accept is that EFE build a level crossing between the Bicentennial Plaza and Central Park, because of the risk of operating the Biotren.
The proposal of the municipality's consulting architect, Sergio Baeriswyl, is to build an automated level crossing with electric control barriers and the best technology available, which could cost up to $ 40 million.
By contrast, the alternative gateway that due to the current rule requiring the inclusion of ramps for disabled people, means a structure that exceed 9 meters EFE gauge required. Whereas
the 90 meters between the sidewalks of Avenida Padre Hurtado and future Binimelis Pascual, the gateway should have a length of about 200 meters.
The risk of railway operation and height, in addition to the known uncertainty of the Coast, are other questions of the idea. Intendant
evaluates the subject
At government level, despite the requests, the Housing SEREMI Carlos Arzola was not available to speak on the subject. The Minvu
indicated it would issue a statement through a press release, nor was delivered during the day.
became known unofficially in the Intendant Maria Soledad Tohá would be evaluating the issue, calling the reports "megapasarela" before review and make a decision.
The dilemma of the regional authority is that the first week of August will present the building remodeled by the MOP, with an investment of about $ 5 billion, and will begin the transfer of government offices, including the Regional Government.
The inauguration, attended by President Bachelet was held in September, including the Bicentennial Plaza and the Memorial for the Disappeared.
The problem is that Central Park appears "cut in two" by the railroad, so the obvious solution is allow continuity through a wide pedestrian walkway, for which resources are already available. Waldo Martinez Architect
"It contradicts the idea of \u200b\u200bthe plain"
The regional director of the Chilean Chamber of Construction, Waldo Martínez Riquelme, expressed surprise with the idea of \u200b\u200bbuilding a "megapasarela" on railroad in the Coastal, because in his opinion, this huge structure contradicts the original design of the "esplanade" which is the Central Park.
Martinez, former head Minvu Urban Development, says the North Shore sectional plan considered This green area as a replica of the existing Campus UdeC between the Central Library and the Forum.
Its dimensions are the same: 400 feet long and 100 meters wide.
and argues that nobody would think of building a footbridge over the meadow UdeC, it is also "strange" that want to ruin the prelude to the future Civic District. Waldo Martinez
indicates that in his opinion it would be prudent to postpone the decision of the runway until you know the outcome of the feasibility study of the burial of the railroad to which it committed last year to run the government.
"For the city, no doubt, that better the burial of the railway.
I think he's willing to wait a bit to do that, "he said.
requested to observe the experience of Viña del Mar, where the Merval built two years ago an underground line, which completely changed the face of the coastline.
"They not only won the railway or adjacent land, won the entire city. The effect that triggers a revaluation of urban land, which is the same as you search the North Shore of Conception sector. "
In short, raised Martínez, megapasarela represents an element that allows the "functional continuity" Central Park, to provide a structure to cross pedestrians.
opinion, however, what is relevant here, the nature of this public space, which will host the Inspectorate, is the "spatial continuity." ------------------
Concepción, Chile, Friday, July 13, 2007
Government: millionaire structure will be "a work of art"
Serviu defends gateway and compares it with Eiffel Tower
Service said it will be a "masterpiece" and recalled that the structure gala also was rejected by the community. Carlos Arzola confirmed Seremi define architectural competition design gateway, which will remain a "lookout."
He was surprised with the controversy over this initiative as it was considered the "master plan" of the North Shore program. The purpose of the work is to provide pedestrian access to Central Park, to be completed later this year.
Serviu
Regional Director, Jaime Arévalo
Gateway will "work of art" and a symbol of the city
Serviu Seremi and director of the controversial regretted for a work that is not designed yet.
By Nello Rolleri V.
Comparison Eiffel Tower in Paris made yesterday Serviu regional director, Jaime Arevalo, to explain the need to build a large pedestrian walkway in the area of \u200b\u200bthe waterfront.
- What someone is going to go ten yards, if after the burial will be able to cross the street with a stoplight? "I agree with you, but what is being proposed with this bridge is a work of art that not only meets the functional subject to cross the railway. We are talking about architectural features that are related to permanence.
This is a project that considers cafeteria, viewpoints (...) It is about creating an architectural work which becomes a symbol of the North Shore and the city, which has a value.
If tomorrow is embodied the underground, this book will have an alternative use for the mere fact of crossing the railway.
- How do you respond to criticism from architects, Waldo Martinez, who believes that a work like this breaks the continuity of Central Park?.
"The planning usually have people who agree and some do not. It is a matter of perspective and how you look at the issue. When built in 1900 in Paris, the Eiffel Tower was also crazy ... stated how that money invested in a large volume, which became the symbol of Paris. Therefore I find it very respectable opinion Waldo Martinez, but is part of the dynamics of the debate.
- Is there a sketch or drawing of what is intended to build? "No, because what we are calling today is why the design.
It is important to understand that this is a place to stay and not just traffic.
The design should collect it through spaces such as coffee, gazebo and more.
"Flooring?
- Are not there other more pressing priorities for the city, such as fixing sidewalks and paved streets? "First I want to say that we are providing $ 600 million, but only for design resources.
Second, the amount of resources assigned to the region participatory floor allowing us to fund many of the projects that were on the waiting list.
addition, we are talking about funding lines are totally different. As relates to pavements have taken a big step to fund the remaining projects.
This is an interesting project for the city, it is part of North Bank.
decision "made?
- To build the gateway is a decision made or yet to be decided? What we have today as a decision is to allocate and award a design of an urban site that will allow us to move forward in creating achieve connectivity and, indeed, turn into a river city Concepción.
This is a demand of the public felt in no way be interpreted as moving other projects such as paving participatory.
- Invest $ 600 million in a gateway is not set aside the burial? "I reiterate that there are $ 600 million. The design will define the value of a gateway feature as we are requesting. -----------------
Concepción, Chile, Saturday, July 14, 2007
Mayor insists criticism of "megapasarela"
"It hurts me that the money of all Chileans spend with a good conscience "
Jacqueline van Rysselberghe said that spending $ 600 million in a catwalk in a sector with so many shortcomings, is "a social sin."
"I think this was a social sin. It hurts me that the money of all Chileans spend without any pangs of conscience at work that nobody wants, they do not have the support of citizens. "
This was raised yesterday the mayor of Concepción, Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, who was surprised by the arguments Serviu regional director, Jaime Arevalo, and Housing SEREMI, Carlos Arzola, to justify the initiative to build a sector megapasarela Coast, to join the Square Citizenship in Central Park.
This structure would be about 200 meters long and 9 meters in height, the gauge required by EFE to pass on the double track railway. You should also save the avenues and Pascual Binimelis Padre Hurtado.
The mayor said he found it "incredible" that compares the gateway to the Eiffel Tower.
said that "what is to raise here is not a work of art, or a gazebo, or a tower, but a footbridge, like many others we've seen in the city."
For Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, however, the problem is not only the aesthetic problem of a bridge of enormous proportions, "But the cost of doing it."
Raised in the sector of the North Shore people live with great material needs, living in mediaguas, in towns "where they have to muddy every day, because there are no pavements."
Under these conditions, he said, a footbridge over a million dollars appears as "a joke" for the neighbors.
With that $ 600 or $ 700 million, he said, he could repair all the broken sidewalks of downtown Concepción. He charged that for five consecutive years to fix municipal projects have been funded either by the Minvu or by the regional government, citing lack of resources. Add
that "there is no money" for the government to pave the streets of the Coast, or to complete the Barros Arana Boulevard to the Plaza Spain.
"But for this aberration urban, yes there is money," concluded the Mayor.
Neighbors are upset
The chairman of neighbors number 5 of the sector "Zañartu Pedro del Río, José Villa Fierro, said neighborhood residents are upset with the Ministry of Housing, because they have heard a through the newspaper to build a large bridge over the railway, no one has asked them their opinion.
"Why Why not make a level crossing on the railway line? ", stated Villa, and used these to the works for years have asked the neighbors, especially the paving of dirt roads, which are now in terrible conditions in the Pedro del Río Zañartu sector in the Conception Coast.
"As a neighborhood council what we want is the burial of the railway.
That is the only solution that will allow us to leave the isolation in which we are today, "said the leader.
He called the idea of \u200b\u200ba bridge of 10 meters as "an absurd ... Who will go up there. " The only ones will take advantage of this gateway will be the criminals and start to steal. " ----------------------------
Trends. Sunday July 22, 2007.
A "megapasarela" on the North Shore of Conception
The controversial idea of \u200b\u200bMinvu
The controversy turned millionaire Minvu project
Eiffel Tower, the Gateway and other urban disputes
A gateway a million dollars to an area where pedestrian traffic is nonexistent.
The trouble arose because it was expected that the announcement of the burial of the railway. Serviu
The director assures that there will be a "masterpiece" for the city.
The lack of sensitivity of the Regional Government to the issues that are key to Concepción and "Intransa is the conclusion of the controversy that arose this week, the product of" megapasarela "announced by the Ministry of Housing for the Costanera.
Although the original idea of \u200b\u200bSEREMI Carlos Arzola and Serviu regional director, Jaime Arevalo, was just adding support in the private sector, when invited to the policy of the Chilean Chamber of Construction to know the Bicentennial Plaza, the discreet ad that was attended by local offices architectural design of a footbridge over the railway, left no one indifferent.
This is because a few days before Arzola himself had confirmed that it was calling for tenders for the feasibility of undergrounding of the railway.
penquista For this last point is key: North Shore program launched by the government of Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle was on the verge of collapse in the mid 1990's when the community realized that only moved into 100 meters of the railway line, but not built an underground path.
was committed to the authority of the season in an undetermined future, when the country availability of resources needed, that would be done.
This fascia was left open for in the relevant sectional plan of the North Shore.
So to build a walkway at a cost of over a million dollars, according to the regional director will Serviu cafes and gazebo, and will be a city landmark as the Eiffel Tower in Paris, aroused the annoyance of the community, because it is considered a work of such magnitude as "definite" and a sign that the feasibility studies of the burial of the railroad, even if they cost almost 200 million pesos, are only a formality. The Intendant Maria Soledad
Tohá in a visit he made last year the sector of construction of the Bicentennial Plaza, expressed concern about the lack of continuity to the Central Park, where Memorial will house the future of the Disappeared, a work that his uncle offered to Jaime Toha relatives of the victims of military rule.
An additional factor to add at this crossroads city is the intervention of Mayor Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, who took the lead against the initiative, which was immediately read in the Minvu as an attempt to "politicize a purely technical issue" .
The downside to this argument is that to see precisely the "technical" including architects, urban planners in the city's reputation as Waldo Martinez, who for more sake is a former head of Urban Development in Minvu Frei Ruiz-Tagle, opinions are devastating against the idea of \u200b\u200ba "megapasarela."
Martinez explained that when designing the realignment of former shunting yard of the former Central Railway Station, which was planned was a large green area between the future Quartermaster (to occupy the building) with the Bio-Bio River.
We designed the Central Park of the same dimensions as the esplanade that exists on the campus of the UdeC: 400 meters long and 100 meters wide.
This large area allows you to highlight the Forum and its bell tower.
This is the same effect you intend on achieving the future and the Civic District Municipality.
Unfortunately, although 13 years have elapsed since the beginning of this urban transformation, the most important of Concepción in recent decades, it has not achieved compliance with the undergrounding of the railway, says Martinez.
However, the plan is designed so that at some point in the future happen.
For that reason, he suggests that the best is expected to be completed feasibility studies before deciding to build a work that "solve" the problem, as the gateway. Waldo Martinez
indicates that a large metal structure on the campus of the UdeC is unthinkable and the same goes for the North Shore.
"that space is dirty"
The dean of the Faculty of Architecture UdeC, Bernardo Suazo, knows the North Shore program.
He succeeded Juan Pablo Gramsh as chief architect of such coordination, while still a Minvu program funded by the United Nations Habitat program.
Suazo explained that the theme of the railway line crosses has always had two alternatives: the first is that on railway line was installed the new Central Station Design, with shops and other equipment, the second of which produced the burial of the railroad, then build an underground station, similar to U. Station de Chile Santiago Metro. "
Neither of those alternatives is what today is offering the Minvu, but something much more precarious and unsatisfactory for the city: a large bridge, which according to all that generate Suazo is "cut" Space Central Park to install an item to "smear" of urban space sector.
Suazo, who also is president of the Urban Committee of the regional chapter of the Chilean Chamber of Construction, stated that a minimum would be prudent to await the outcome of feasibility studies for the undergrounding of the railway is just bidding for the Minvu and wait for defining the investment plans of EFE for the rest of the decade.
"If we do not know what to say the feasibility study, then hurry to decide now to build a bridge," said Suazo, but is considered a temporary structure.
If what is wanted is a temporary solution to the problem of spatial continuity of Central Park and the Bicentennial Plaza, it is reasonable to construct a pedestrian level, using the best security technology available in the world, costing a fraction of the 600 million pesos for the catwalk.
"You have an architectural and urban vision" of the global plan of North Bank, says the scholar. He adds that one can speak of a bridge of very good standard, with a gazebo and other elements, however, "that does not mean it is a good urban solution."
Beyond the aesthetic theme of the mole, to Bernardo Suazo is very difficult to convince people that should rise to a height equivalent to a three-story building to reach to Central Park.
insists that "can not jeopardize" the underground with no work, no matter how small. "The North Shore is smart to let the space for it ... not mortgaged the future. "
Minvu committed to a viewpoint to the river Bío
"useless and monstrous." So called the French Academy of Fine Arts, the project that the engineer Gustave Eiffel began construction in July 1887.
was such a rejection of the Parisian community to this tower could be built only with the commitment that would be dismantled after the Universal Exhibition of the year 1889.
The comparison was done by the regional director of Serviu, Jaime Arevalo, and although it might seem outlandish, there are commonalities between "megapasarela" and the Eiffel Tower both are installed in a plaza, gazebo serve the city and have coffee and restaurant. Is
transform the huge pedestrian bridge over the railway, a city landmark and tourist attraction of Conception?.
For the president of the board of residents from the area Zañartu Pedro del Río, José Villa Fierro, it is hard to believe. Remember that the area is dangerous due to frequent attacks. "What other anything can serve as a footbridge over the railroad tracks, but to encourage suicides and robberies? poses.
Remember that the sector has camps and many unpaved roads.
For the leader if the Minvu neighborhood of $ 600 million available to spend on the Coast, as democratic is that I asked neighborhood leaders what the priorities are and then decide.
Claudia García Lima, regional president of the College of Architects, reports that came from Brazil 10 years ago to live in Concepción. And regrets that since then until now remains in the discussion on the undergrounding of the railway, without any progress.
The professional shown amazed because the discussion was distracted by other problems and not go to school: "What do we want?, that the city go to the Bio Bio river, right?.
So the question is whether a footbridge over the railway will achieve that. And I do not think that this is not the solution. "
For Garcia Lima City consensus is that the solution is the burial of the railway and to further efforts should target. Minvu
The draft of a gateway, "as an idea, it seems unfortunate and inappropriate, urbanistically talking about."
adds that the "aggregate" that is to make more attractive the idea of \u200b\u200bthe gateway, such as cafes, restaurants and the viewpoint, do not change the impression that it is "a bad idea."
For Brazilian architect, it is reasonable that the Minvu reassess the project, considering the opinions of community associations and Concepción. --------------
Concepción, Chile, Saturday, July 21, 2007
confirmed SEREMI Arzola
Megapasarela not going this year by agreeing to delay project Minvu
In Urban Board meeting held in the Municipality of Concepcion was agreed to form technical committee to assess the problem.
architects were careful in their criticism of Minvu, but the consensus is that they prefer to wait for the undergrounding of the railway.
The design and implementation of a walkway on the Coast has been postponed, pending a definition of the burial of the railway.
This was the agreement reached yesterday by the Ministry of Housing, represented by Carlos Arzola SEREMI, before penquista community representatives gathered at the Urban Board in the Municipality of Concepcion. Arzola
accepted the proposal made by the Chilean Chamber of Construction, by Bernardo Suazo, who asked defer this project not judge just value on the gateway, called a joint evaluation between the public and private sector of all possible alternatives to unite the Bicentennial Plaza in Central Park.
"abanderizarse is not one or the other solution," said Suazo, but discussed in a technical way what is best for the city.
Suazo weighted tone was imitated by others attending the meeting, including neighborhood leaders in the industry, who showed very cautious as baffled by the idea of \u200b\u200ba bridge of this size, which according to the consulting architect of the municipality Sergio Baeriswyl, should not be less than 250 meters long.
professional in his presentation for the township argued that the issue of the footbridge was surprising, because the sectional plan of the North Shore, issued at the beginning of the decade, with the approval of Ministry of Housing and Regional Government, the sector provides for a low level walkway. Baeriswyl
raised the desirability of building a walkway on the sector level, as there is a walk across the interior of the station Biotren Conception.
Another idea raised was to enable, on a temporary basis, until such time as the burial of the railroad, the continuity of O'Higgins Avenue toward the waterfront.
The North Shore program coordinator, Ana Maria Arzola, said the initiative considered a structure that will serve not only to cross the railway and by pedestrian avenues and Pascual Binimelis Padre Hurtado, but also serve as a lookout, and even raises the idea of \u200b\u200bassociating it to a cafe and restaurants.
Regarding the cost structure would, of about $ 600 million, argued that the action is generated by the program through the sale of land.
The need to unite both by pedestrian public spaces comes from the expectation that they will soon start the construction of major building projects in the area.
The Serviu have here for sale two large pieces of land, each of 378 thousand square meters, a on each side of Central Park, which allow us to build more complex buildings, adjacent to the new mayor and will have river views. Journal
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