Paseo del Bajo: this is how the first trucks moved on the highway that took more than 50 years – 02/05/2019

For the first time, the trucks were traveling on the Paseo del Bajo. This was for a test of the trace response to the circulation and the patent reading system. The highway crosses a semi-covered trench for 7.1 kilometers and is reserved for heavy traffic. It will be inaugurated in the middle of this month. This video records the beginnings of this fast track that took 50 years to become a reality.

From Tuesday 15, the trucks moved from north to south. And at 19, from south to north. "The Paseo del Bajo is an expected project for 50 years that will allow Cross the city in 10 minutes, when he came to delay 45 in this stretch, "said the Minister of Urban Development, Franco Moccia.

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The new truck and long-distance bus road corridor extends from the street of Brazil and the descent of the 25 de Mayo highway until the withdrawal of tolls from the Illia motorway, with an entrance branch to Retiro Omnibus terminal and another that connects it to the port of Buenos Aires.

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The Paseo del Bajo has four ways, two for each hand, pbading through trenches, subterranean and connecting viaducts. To travel, you have to pay a toll of $ 70. But there will be no toll station, but the collection will be via the system "Freeways without barriers", which is based on the automatic patent detection. The maximum speed will be 60 km / h.

On the surface, where are now the axes Madero-Huergo and Alicia Moreau de Justo, there will be eight lanes for light vehicles.

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To connect the Microcentro and Puerto Madero, the vehicles will cross the United States, Independencia, Belgrano, Moreno, Perón, Corrientes, Lavalle, Viamonte and Cordoba.

According to the Buenos Aires government, the works will benefit More than 135,000 people per day for truck drivers, bus pbadengers and motorists.

The cost of labor $ 672 million, which were provided by the City, the Department of Transportation of the Nation and a loan from CAF, the Development Bank of Latin America.

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