Buenos Aires’ new urban motorway, the Paseo del Bajo, won the award for Best Urban Works 2019 at the Argentine Road Association Awards, which is organised annually to mark Argentina’s National Road Day. The award recognises the impact that the Paseo del Bajo has had on reducing the city’s traffic congestion and improving north-south connectivity thanks to four new semi-covered lanes and the remodelling of eight surface lanes totalling more than six kilometres in length.

Ineco, in collaboration with its local partner AC&A, carried out the inspection of section B of the works (southern semi-covered trench), a semi-underground four-lane road intended for heavy goods vehicle traffic in the centre of Buenos Aires. With a length of 7.1 kilometres, it is one of the most important civil works that has ever been carried out in Argentina and has enabled the Buenos Aires-La Plata and Illia motorways to be connected and new green spaces in Buenos Aires’ El Bajo district to be created.

The company provided the Ministry of Transport with technical assistance on slab track technology. The work culminated with several days of training in Buenos Aires that was attended by 40 technicians.

The Paseo del Bajo project is one of the most important civil works that are being carried out in Argentina. It will connect Buenos Aires-La Plata and Illia highways creating new green spaces in the El Bajo area of Buenos Aires. Its aim is to relieve congestion in the city traffic and to improve the North-South connections with 12 new lanes measuring over six kilometres in length.

Ineco, in collaboration with its local partner AC&A, will inspect the works for the new Paseo del Bajo road in Buenos Aires, in section B, ‘Trinchera semicubierta Sur’, a semi- underground road of 4 lanes intended for heavy vehicles traffic. This new access will allow freight traffic to exit the Buenos Aires-La Plata highway, cross the centre without traffic lights and to enter the port and the Retiro bus terminal directly, substantially improving travel times.

Ineco has already worked in Argentina developing studies for the restoration of the line between San Salvador de Jujuy and La Quiaca.