Guarujá wants to reform roads to facilitate the flow of trucks heading to the port

The municipality of Guarujá submitted to Antaq, the National Waterway Transportation Agency, a road reform proposal of building an exclusive space for heavy vehicles to facilitate the flow of loads through the city. The idea is to have trucks heading to the terminals located on the left bank of the port complex run in trenches in the Vicente de Carvalho District.

According to Paulo Cavini, Guarujá’s Secretary of Economic Development, the current project for an underwater tunnel connecting the city to Santos includes erecting a viaduct over the 14 Bis square in Vicente de Carvalho. “Obviously, we do not agree with that, and we have begun looking for alternatives.”

Thus, the city hall mobilized a technical team to study other feasible options. After two months of debates, the team came up with the idea of trenches, which would serve as extensions to the tunnel. They will be located on the land that currently houses electricity towers and crosses the Guilherme Backeuser and Santos Dumont avenues, as well as the 14 Bis square and the streets 24 de Agosto and São Paulo.

“To make the trench, you first have to lower the road surface. It’s not like a tunnel because tunnels usually require a very high investment. However, we still lower the surface three to four meters to be able to cross over these trenches, avoiding the creation of viaducts,” explains the secretary.

Cavini’s idea is that the trenches will connect the Cônego Doménio Rangoni highway through a new road that the city will create close to the future Civil Metropolitan Airport. However, the trucks will not always circulate in trenches.

“The road will go up and down according to the need. When it gets closer to the road, it will become a regular lane as there are no residents in the region. Bridges and pillars will be required in some areas because the trench will pass through environmentally sensitive areas with important streams to protect. The tracks prevent heavy traffic from clogging the city’s roads. The trenches serve not to put heavy traffic on the city’s streets. In some ways, the trucks will emerge from the tunnel, but they will not reach the road surface.

Investments 

According to the secretary, the project may require R$ 450 million in investments, which is the approximate value of the tunnel project between Santos’s east and northwest zones, the Federal Government’s counterpart to the underwater tunnel project. “May Guarujá also be contemplated and gain from privatization, with an improvement in the road,” says Cavini.

According to him, the power lines on Vicente de Carvalho will be deactivated. “What’s not deactivated will be buried underground.” Cavini also stresses the project pushed forward by Guarujá takes into account the creation of the new airport and the construction of the light rail vehicle (LRV) alongside the tunnel. “We are also thinking of an LRV connection between Santos and São Vicente and the airport.”

Conversation and Analysis

Guarujá’s counter-proposal was sent to Antaq in March amid the public consultation on the privatization process of the port complex. “We could not receive two thousand more trucks per day on the municipal road, so there was a joint effort,” summarizes Cavini.

According to Antaq, “the contributions, subsidies, and suggestions received within the scope of public hearing 1/2022 (which addressed the privatization) will be analyzed, incorporated, and responded to by the agency”.

Source: A Tribuna

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