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Before the arrival of the coldest time of the year and the intense snowfalls recorded in recent weeks, the Ministry of Public Works, through National Roads, began to deploy the Comprehensive Winter Maintenance Plan (PIMI). The same aims to guarantee the conditions of circulation and safety of all types of vehicles to allow each user to reach their destination.
The PIMI contemplates the maintenance of more than 7,500 km of 11 national routes belonging to Mendoza and the five Patagonian provinces: Chubut, Neuquén, Río Negro, Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego. The initiative, carried out every year, consists of the presence of specialized personnel and the deployment of state-of-the-art road machinery at different strategic points to ensure passability along national routes in the event of ice and/or snow remaining on the road. .
“This operation is of vital importance for those who live in the towns most affected by the snowfall that occurs during the winter. From National Roads we carry out comprehensive management based on a regional perspective to ensure connection and supply during this period that is so complicated by inclement weather,” said the agencys general manager, Gustavo Arrieta. And he added: "In the success of the Winter Maintenance Plan is the sustainability of tourism, production and quality of life in Patagonia."
In 2021, the national government made an investment in equipment through the Federal Road Strengthening Plan. Of the almost $14,000 million invested to acquire machinery, $7,188 million were allocated to road equipment, of which 262 million have already been delivered to the districts involved in the PIMI.
Among the main tasks of the plan is the clearing of snow to prevent its accumulation on the routes and, in this way, guarantee the circulation and transport of cargo that supplies the towns of Mendoza and Patagonia. Other important tasks consist of irrigation with anti-ice liquid or saline solution, and the distribution of bulk salt to remove ice from the road. In turn, on the routes with gravel sections, mud cleaning work is carried out to prevent the formation of swamps due to the melting of the snow.
Meanwhile, the most intensive work is carried out in Neuquén on national routes 231 and 242, which connect with the Cardenal Samoré and Pino Hachado border crossings, respectively. In Mendoza, the same is done on RN 7, in the Cristo Redentor System, and RN 145 in Paso Pehuenche, both on the border with Chile. Columns of up to four or five meters of snow tend to accumulate in these areas in a single day.
All the logistics and coordination of the PIMI is carried out through joint work with other national, provincial and municipal agencies, such as the National Gendarmerie, security forces and provincial roads, National Parks, civil defense, ARSAT, and the National Meteorological Service, among others.
AWARD | WINTER MAINTENANCE SERVICE 2022 – TIERRA DEL FUEGO
Client: National Directorate of Roads
Place: Province of Tierra del Fuego
Opening date: 04-27-2022 09:00 a.m.
Official budget: $ 0.00 See Tender
CHOEL SRL $135,000,000.00 |
