The MTOP studies the possibility of building a highway to decongest the Interspa Route that connects Canelones with Montevideo.
He Ministry of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP) continues analyzing alternatives to improve connectivity in the metropolitan area of Uruguay: The most recent is the construction of “the first highway in the world.” Uruguay”, As the portfolio holder explained, José Luis Falero.
The project is being studied by the MTOP, and proposes the construction of a 20 kilometer stretch from the Interspa Route to Route 8, passing over routes 34 and 107. Its objective is “to be able redistribute those who go east on the highway and those who go towards the City of the Coast,” said Falero, in dialogue with Radio Sarandí.
Likewise, since it is a highway, it would have no interference “without entry or drilling,” according to the minister. “The Interbalnearia does not allow us to have a greater number of routes because it is very limited and very absorbed by the urban plot on both sides,” he highlighted, emphasizing that it is not a highway as such.
“We have to think differently about the infrastructure of the Uruguay, We continue as we did 30 years ago and everything has surpassed us,” said Falero in this regard, and stressed that “production has multiplied by four in recent years,” which means, in principle, that there are four times more on the routes. of trucks.
Alternatives for transportation and metropolitan connectivity
The study of the new highway joins other alternatives that the MTOP is working on. One of them was the project of a fast track on the Interspa Route that, as Falero had anticipated at the time, would seek improve mobility in access to Montevideo along this route, concentrating on traffic from the Solís stream to the east. On the other hand, those who visited the spas of the Gold Coast would continue using the current routealthough “with lower pressure”, given that the traffic would be segregated and would generate a lower car density on each of the roads.
This project seems to have been relegated while the ministry studies the possibility of building a highway and the same minister clarified that the Interspa Route does not allow for a greater number of roads.
However, a project that is advancing and is optimistically projected as complementary to private traffic and bus passenger traffic in the area is the tram-train that will link Montevideo with Cannelloni. “A private initiative appeared that, in my opinion, is interesting. We are willing to approve. The ministry’s technical studies indicate that it is a convenient proposal. Now we need to finish a formal part, and convey to the two mayors that there is work done on that request, a proposal that was considered and evaluated favorably,” Falero had explained when they began to talk about the proposal, highlighting that, for the first time, Once, when talking about connections on the coast, there was a specific project.
Source: Ambito
