
Three months after the landslide occurred at kilometer 230+400 of the Veracruz-Puebla highway, in Cumbres de Maltrata, work continues to remove the material and open one lane to vehicular traffic. According to the report of the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT), the recovery of that section is 70 percent and approximately 102 thousand cubic meters of stony material and large rocks were removed.
According to the statement, the first stage includes the removal of the material, the formation of berms and slopes in the affected area, which will conclude at the end of January, as well as the opening of the temporary road, which will allow the reopening to vehicular traffic with the same number of lanes with which that highway operated.
It is also explained that the extracted rock will be reused in the construction of a 2-meter-wide by 10-meter-high embankment, as well as in the construction of a three-meter-high gabion wall.
Temporary road being prepared
This first stage will conclude at the end of next January, with the start-up of the temporary road of almost half a kilometer with two lanes, with an average speed of 40 kilometers per hour, designed to resume vehicle traffic and cargo transportation that usually circulates on the federal highway.
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They encourage taking alternative routes such as the Magueyes-Atzitzintla and Acultzingo highways
Transporters, businessmen and the population trust that, at the end of next January, as Jesús Antonio Esteva Medina, secretary of the SICT, said, the temporary passage will be ready, so that the transfer from the Southeast to the Center of the country will be faster.
The businessman Luis Cruz Montesinos, from the Business Coordinating Council, said that the effects that this landslide has caused for all sectors are serious and increase as time goes by. He urged the need, -even if the section of the highway affected by the landslide is cleared-, of an alternate communication route to the Veracruz-Mexico highway, to lighten the vehicular load that is registered on that highway.
Aldo Romero, regional delegate of the Mexican Alliance of Transport Organization A. C. (Amotac) in Orizaba agreed on the need to have another alternate highway through which heavy transport can circulate, since the highway is the most effective circulation option for that sector, since the other one in the area of the High Mountains such as the Cumbres de Acultzingo, is not viable.
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In addition to this work, there are rehabilitation works on the Cosamaloapan – La Tinaja highway and checkpoints at other points
A landslide paralyzed the area on October 25
It should be remembered that on October 25, a landslide of rocks, earth and logs occurred that completely blocked the passage at kilometer 231, and it has required that time to remove the tons of rock material that fell from the hill.
On November 1, Federal Roads and Bridges (Capufe) confirmed the discovery of four heavy vehicles and two sedan cars, which were buried due to the landslide of the hill and ruled out that there were any human losses.
He also pointed out that the work is being carried out in coordination with the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SCIT), in addition to the National Guard (GN), which is located at the point where a 15-kilometer detour was put into operation, in the direction of Puebla-Veracruz, near Magueyes.
Source: oem