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“Years of abandonment”. An agricultural producer made a video on social media, where he showed the deplorable state of a provincial route in Buenos Aires and it went viral. On his personal account X (exTwitter), the agricultural engineer Santiago del Solar He published how the junction of national route 7 with provincial route 31 was and said: “This is how we travel and this is how the risk of accidents exists. There are only memories of the Mauricio Macri era, when a lot was done. We hope to be able to resume work at some point. The K left a broken country.
Her followers were quick to echo her post. “The only good thing is that the crossing has a replica of the Parthenon,” Bumper Crop answered. “There is also a nice subtraction to the san façon in the improvised rond point rutero: a choripaso, but of category,” the former Macri official continued later. While another user continued: “Route 31, where the Pomars died, from Route 7 to Route 8, is the route of death because it is so broken.”
In dialogue with THE NATION, The producer described in first person the odyssey that is traveling the Argentine routes: “The roads in general are horrible, it’s a danger.”
He explained that in particular, 31 is a provincial route that connects 7 with 8 and passes through the districts of Salto and Rojas. “There, when you want to get on the road at that intersection where there is no roundabout, with trucks coming down 7 going 130 kilometers per hour and they can’t stop. One must pass through very large pits up to 30 centimeters deep and 60 centimeters in diameter. The truth is that you hit yourself a few times and you have to accelerate and exit quickly on the 7th because there are many vehicles behind you that pass over you. “It is a total danger,” he said.
“The truth is that every time I take it, I am scared and worried, looking around and trying to see when I can get in,” he added.
In the video, you can see some columns that were going to be the base of a bridge “so that the junction is something more logical and civilized, but apparently that didn’t come to nothing.” “It is really very dangerous and there are many other roads where the same thing happens. For example, Route 3, near Azul and Gonzales Chaves, where you have some medians in the middle that you can’t believe. It is the horror of Argentine roads and the danger of driving there trying to avoid an accident,” he said.
In his next post, Del Solar went further. With another photograph he showed the presence of a radar for speed control, and said: “And from now on, just a few meters away from this disaster: The State is present (to collect fines).”
There another user told him: “But, To install a speed camera of 40 or 60 km/h they do have time and money. And they put another one at an idiotic intersection on the route in Tres Sargentos, on a street where if five cars go through it per day it is a lot, but again, going down to 60 km/h through the intersection.”
“I stopped by Monday around noon and they were installing that camera. Going up to 7 from 31 is deadly, the potholes are huge, they are enough to break vehicles, disastrous,” commented a producer.
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