The Minister of Public Works of Santa Fe, Lisandro Enricoexpressed concern about the lack of response from the Nation to the prolonged complaint that the province makes due to the lack of maintenance and the poor condition of national routes, and stated that “For the central government, national routes do not exist, they do not care, they are not interested. “The situation is unsustainable.”
“For the Milei Government, national routes do not exist, they do not care, they are not interested. “The situation is unsustainable,” commented the official. A report prepared by the Provincial Road Safety Agency revealed that 60 people died in 2024 in accidents that occurred on these national routes.
In this regard, Almirón listed that “they don’t cut the grass, they don’t cover the wells, they don’t have projects, they change things all the time, and politically no one shows their face. The nation collects taxes, VAT, Profits, does not remove withholdings, but does not put a weight on the routes. That is the reality: no one talks about national routes because it is an issue that is internal and this is a government that has a very Buenos Aires perspective, it is a Buenos Aires democracy, and the truth is that they don’t care.”
At the same time, he recalled that the governor Maximiliano Pullaro had requested that the routes be transferred to the Province “if they were not going to repair them.”
Sixty fatalities on both routes
According to a report prepared by the Provincial Road Safety Agency, it was revealed that in the RN 11 30 people have died so far this year.
Most of the events occurred in the central-northern section of the route (76%), with a high percentage (67%) of the deceased between the ages of 20 and 50. For its part, 30 people lost their lives in RN 34. The largest number of accidents occurred in the central section of the route (62%), the majority of victims were between 20 and 40 years old (45%) and the collisions were mainly against trucks (16 deaths).
Minister Enrico referred to the fatal accidents and said that “There are deaths on the roads and unfortunately there will continue to be, but the Nation does not care. I send messages to the Highway Department, I tell them that there was another death. I think that if that death were in the Federal Capital, the Obelisk or in General Paz, they would invest there to avoid it, because there are resources for Buenos Aires but not for the interior.
In that sense, the minister recognized that “the deterioration of the road infrastructure is so great that walking on the national routes that cross the province on a rainy day is extremely dangerous. We also have provincial roads in poor condition, but at least we have a plan, we are on the subject. But the Nation does not care, they are people who travel by plane around the world, it is very difficult for them to understand the problem.”
He also recalled that “from the province we have given asphalt to the Nation to repair its wells, on (route) 11, on 34, on 168. There are 2,700 kilometers of national routes in Santa Fe.”
“We give them asphalt, we ask them to give us the routes and we don’t ask for anything in return. We can’t do more.” Due to the seriousness of the situation, Enrico mentioned that “the governor analyzed the possibility of going to the Supreme Court of Justice for this, because what is happening is unsustainable. We analyze it, we talk about it, we don’t like it, but someone from the Nation has to stand up for this.”
Tenders
On the other hand, Lisandro Enrico mentioned the beginning of a bidding plan for different maintenance tasks on shoulders of Santa Fe routes: “We have 9,800 km of shoulders in the province – we are only talking about provincial routes, excluding the highway, which has a maintenance scheme-“.
“Then we divided the Santa Fe territory into 25 zones, and we put out to tender all the zones together to make a scheme for cutting, maintenance, shoulder roads and clearing of trunks on all provincial routes. Every day we are doing three or four tenders, until we reach at 25. That is the plan we want to implement for the summer,” he concluded.
Source: Ambito
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