{"id":3665,"date":"2019-08-29T17:13:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-29T15:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/?p=3665"},"modified":"2019-09-02T08:17:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T06:17:52","slug":"buenos-aires-opens-the-new-paseo-del-bajo-amid-much-fanfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/buenos-aires-opens-the-new-paseo-del-bajo-amid-much-fanfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Buenos Aires opens the new Paseo del Bajo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the municipal government, more than 134,000 residents of Buenos Aires benefit directly from the Paseo del Bajo, a new 7.1 kilometre road corridor that opened in May and crosses the city from north to south, connecting the Buenos Aires-La Plata and Illia highways. It has a total of 12 lanes, four of which run in the semi-depressed central road section (trench) that is exclusively for heavy vehicles and operates as a highway: according to the Buenos Aires Department of Urban Development and Transport, every day more than 15,300 lorries weighing 12 tonnes or more and more than 800 coaches travel this section.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the traffic \u2013which consists of approximately 76,000 private vehicles per day and public transport\u2013 uses the eight surface lanes located on both sides of the trench, four on each side (two in each direction), on Avenidas Alicia Moureau and Huergo. The left-hand lanes are designed for through traffic and cars are not allowed to stop. The project also included the construction of nine bridges along the Paseo to connect both sides of the road and 60,000 m<sup>2<\/sup> of green areas, bicycle lanes and a large pedestrian stairway by the Puente de la Mujer bridge, which connects Plaza de Mayo to the Puerto Madero district of the city.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='custom-gallery galleryid-3665 clearfix' data-gallery-layout='213'><figure class='gallery-item'><a title=\"Interior of the trench during construction.\"  href='https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/66-noticias-2a.jpg'><img width=\"750\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/66-noticias-2a-750x420.jpg\" class=\"attachment-vw_medium size-vw_medium\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/66-noticias-2a-750x420.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/66-noticias-2a-265x147.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='gallery-caption'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\tInterior of the trench during construction.\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'><a title=\"An aerial view of the works in July 2018.\"  href='https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/66-noticias-2b.jpg'><img width=\"750\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/66-noticias-2b-750x420.jpg\" class=\"attachment-vw_medium size-vw_medium\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/66-noticias-2b-750x420.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/66-noticias-2b-265x147.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='gallery-caption'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\tAn aerial view of the works in July 2018.\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'><a title=\"Ineco\u2019s works inspection team, which was responsible for section B, from left to right: Luis Miguel Ses\u00e9, \u00d3scar Heredia, Katherine Baez, Nora Vadino, Cecilia Biafore, Norberto Ripetta, Juan Pablo Morla and Sergio Leguizam\u00f3n.\"  href='https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/66-noticias-2c.jpg'><img width=\"750\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/66-noticias-2c-750x420.jpg\" class=\"attachment-vw_medium size-vw_medium\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/66-noticias-2c-750x420.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/66-noticias-2c-265x147.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='gallery-caption'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\tIneco\u2019s works inspection team, which was responsible for section B, from left to right: Luis Miguel Ses\u00e9, \u00d3scar Heredia, Katherine Baez, Nora Vadino, Cecilia Biafore, Norberto Ripetta, Juan Pablo Morla and Sergio Leguizam\u00f3n.\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<h4>Ineco\u2019s participation<\/h4>\n<p>Beginning in 2017, Ineco, together with its local partner AC&amp;A, carried out inspection work for AUSA (Autopistas Urbanas SA) on the new infrastructure\u2019s section B, the \u2018southern semi-covered trench,\u2019 which was opened to traffic on 27 May after several days of events and in an atmosphere of celebration: it was a project that was long-awaited by the three million inhabitants of the Argentine capital, which, together with its metropolitan area, has a population of around 12 million people.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is one of the most important civil works projects in the country and, thanks to it, travel time has been reduced from 50 to 10 minutes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is one of the most important civil works projects in the country and, thanks to it, travel time has been reduced from 50 minutes to 10 minutes. The new road enables cargo traffic to travel from the Buenos Aires-La Plata highway, cross the city centre without having to stop for traffic lights and directly access the port and Retiro bus terminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the municipal government, more than 134,000 residents of Buenos Aires benefit directly from the Paseo del Bajo, a new 7.1 kilometre road corridor &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":3642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[581,1414,599,578],"tags":[1410,1866,617,1409],"coauthors":[1869],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3707,"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3665\/revisions\/3707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3665"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}