This is the project aimed at preventing freight trains from crossing the different cities of Santa Fe towards the port area of Rosario, whose execution period was scheduled for 2024.
The arrival of Javier Milei to power, the premise of “There is no money” and the decision of the central government not to carry out public works; poses an uncertain outlook for this venture.
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The company in charge of the Circunvalar Plan abandoned the work due to lack of payments.
Route 70: two kilometers destroyed
In this context, approximately two kilometers of the Provincial Route 70 They were absolutely destroyed by the company that was in charge of the work.
Faced with this situation, the Minister of Public Works of Santa Fe, Lisandro Enricoannounced that the Province will be responsible for the repair of this section of the route: “What they did is a disaster. They tore up two kilometers of route and left the land there. The company left nine months ago because they did not pay it.”
In the program Creo, which is broadcast every morning on AIREnrico said that officials from the Provincial Highway Directorate contacted their national counterparts to inform them of Santa Fe’s decision to pave this route: “After the Nation sees what it does with this unfinished work” of the Circunvalar, he remarked.
In mid-April of this year, the company Merco Vial SA laid off 43 workers. The sending of funds is frozen – the Nation stopped sending money in November 2023 – and it is not known what will happen to the future of the work.
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