The mayor of Envigado anticipated that from next month the vehicles covered by this benefit will not be able to circulate on these two roads. These are the reasons.
The mayor of Envigado, Braulio Alonso Espinosa Márquez, announced this Wednesday that starting next Tuesday, March 1, that municipality from the south of the Aburrá valley will be partially unmarked from the measure of the payment for circulation and will not contemplate any type of exemption for vehicles that travel through El Poblado and Las Vegas avenues.
The decision would seek to avoid a collapse in the mobility of that municipality, which will be under pressure following the restart of the Metroplús works on El Poblado avenue for a pre-trunk of that system that will connect the San Marcos neighborhood with the La Frontera sector. .
According to Espinosa, as a result of these works, the two lanes in the south-north direction will be closed on El Poblado avenue, between the Burger King restaurant and the channeling of the La Ayurá creek.
“Due to this situation, since the first of March they will not be able to travel with the payment for congestion in all of El Poblado Avenue or in Las Vegas in Enviga territory. In the rest of the municipality, it will be possible to travel with a pick and plate with said payment,” the mayor reported.
The measure adopted by Envigado comes following a week in which the impact of the payment for circulation on the mobility of the Valle de Aburrá has been questioned by several mayors of the metropolitan region.
As Espinosa had expressed to EL COLOMBIANO on February 14, that municipality viewed with concern the high vehicular congestion that has been occurring following the implementation of this payment, which allows drivers who have a peak and license plate to be exempt from this restriction. .
“If in El Poblado there are 10, 20 or 30 vehicles that should be stored, only with that the avenue collapses. And if they go to Las Vegas, which is plan B for many, they also collapse it,” Espinosa said.
In the neighboring municipality of Itagüí, another mayor who has objected to this measure has been José Fernando Escobar, who since last January he distanced himself from that metropolitan decision and decided that the peak and plate would govern in his jurisdictionexcept for a series of metropolitan connecting artery roads.
In the case of Envigado, Espinosa emphasized that, for now, the only roads in which the payment for circulation will not apply will be Las Vegas and El Poblado. In the rest of the municipality, the rules of the game will remain the same.