He Ministry of Works Publictogether with other State institutions, began this Thursday, December 26, the jobs for the installation of pipes drainage rainwater in the kilometer 9 of the Duarte Highwayas part of the intervention that seeks to eliminate chaos vehicular in that area.
The National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (Intrant) closed four lanes in a west-east direction and began the process of opening the trench to install the 36-inch pipes that total about 250 meters at four intersections of John F. Kennedy Avenue.
Engineer Juan Hernández, from the Malespín construction company, a contractor entity Works Publicsaid that we must create the drainage suitable for removing water of the area immediately because otherwise a kind of dam would form.
“This crossing is being done to pass the water from this side (south) to the other side (north) where the drainage old rainwater from the work. We are also going to make some central gutters, because the water that comes from the Núñez de Cáceres elevated route will continue six lanes expresses after the bus terminal, then we have to create the drainage to save that water“.
In the center of the road a gutter that excavation will begin to channel the waters to scuppers and manholes.
The jobs They started after 10:30, which immediately caused slowness in the transit vehicular from the west towards the National District. The intervention began this Thursday and will be affected lanes until Sunday the 29th of this month, but it will be completed in February.
The circulation
He Intrant was in charge of placing the walls New Jersey plastic to protect the lanes where the ditch was made that covers, in principle, an area of
Alexandra Cedenodirector of Mobility of the Intrantexplained that the jobs They started after 10:00 in the morning, because they asked Works Public to start the intervention after peak hours to affect the traffic as little as possible. circulation in the area.
“We are checking that there is no congestion, because people find things surprising and since in the morning there is a contraflow to enter the city and there are few left lanes to circulate at the exit to Santiago, that is why it started at that time and as they progress they are enabling to create the least inconvenience,” said Cedeño.
Public works
Oneximo Gonzalezin charge of the road solution of the kilometer 9reported that what the intervention seeks is to take advantage of the decrease in transit vehicular to resolve the issue of drainage pluvial.
“Those are jobs what they entail to not block the kilometer 9because that is reflected throughout the city. It is a way to take advantage of the less intense days of the transit to do those jobs that are mandatory.”
He explained that the work will be done by closing some lanes and opening others in such a way that the effect on the circulation vehicular be as little as possible, because it is not about generating an aggressive impact and he recalled that in that section there are 14 lanes.
