The nearly eight thousand inhabitants of the more than 1,800 properties located on either side of the Carabanchel-La María road, in El Retiro, are daily victims of a string of legal and technical setbacks that have prevented the completion of the expansion works. and improvement. The current team of the Secretariat of Physical Infrastructure of Antioquia, heir to this mess, has sought all year to unblock the project, currently divided for its execution into two contracts, of which only one is working.
We consulted the Secretariat of Physical Infrastructure of Antioquia about the complete resumption of the works, the estimated completion date of the same and the total projected investment, but we did not receive a response, as of the closing of this edition.
“When they finish it, which we don’t know when it will be, we hope that the municipality will take ownership of the maintenance and subsequent care of this work, which we end up paying for without asking for it and without needing it.” Neighbor of the La María sector
3 months, first execution period of the project, in 2019.
2016 year of the pre-feasibility study of the expanded road.
This road is 2.5 km long in total.
$10,267 million, estimated cost of work, in 2018.
$33,000 million, final cost of work (unofficial calculation).
$9,216 million, as of December 2023, collected through valuation.
And the exchanges?
If the Carabanchel-La María expansion were ready today, there would be a situation that would affect its proper and safe use: nothing is known about its necessary interchanges with the Palmas bypass and the access road to the municipal seat. The citizen oversight of the project says it does not know of designs or construction contracts in this regard, despite the fact that they established petition rights. “Nothing is done without exchanges; Let’s imagine people, in their car, making a dangerous turn to the left, either to enter through Carabanchel or through the La María bridge, which is very narrow for the vehicular flow that there will be with the expanded road.
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