The decision was in response to a request from the Congress of Mayors and given the proximity of the soybean harvest, due to the poor state of the rural roads.
The government decreed the road emergency throughout Uruguay due to the state of the rural roads, product of the intense rains and floods in several areas of the country that took place in recent weeks. It was in response to a request from the Congress of Mayors.
After several complaints in this regard, the Executive power declared a national road emergency, with the objective that the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) can assign extraordinary resources for the recovery of the rural roads necessary to carry out the last stages of the soybean harvestessential for the country’s exports.
As explained by the owner of the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP), José Luis Falero“it was a request from Congress of Mayors “which is reasonable as a result of the high volume of rain that has occurred in recent months and that has significantly affected the rural road network.” The urgency was particular as the soybean harvest approaches: “There is an understandable concern,” he said. the leader, in dialogue with Telemundo.
Given the need to be able to leave the soybean fields with trucks loaded with grain, towards the port, the idea is to carry out a “joint task” with the municipalities, based on an “extraordinary contribution” from the MEF and with the surveys of roads that need a more immediate repair. “Starting next week the arrangements will begin,” said Falero, who also clarified that they will be aimed at “so that at least we can go out with production.”
Olivera stays for UPM trucks
The state of rural roads had already been put on the scene when the mayor of Paysandú, Nicolás Olivera, He complained about the traffic of large trucks to and from the manufacturing plant. UPM 2 in the department, even in the middle of the rains. This, he noted, could cause the streets to break down.
“The gentlemen of UPM will think that we are a banana country and they can do whatever they want. In the midst of road emergency, zero respect for the rules, for the authorities, for the neighbors. Zero sensitivity. “Patience has run out with these daring people,” he expressed on social networks in this regard.
Source: Ambito
