A year ago, it took less than 24 hours for the first blockade to take place on the Barranca-Larga Ventanilla highway. According to the residents of San Francisco, San Vicente Coatlán and San Pablo Coatlán, the federal government, through different agencies, including the Secretariat of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT), promised to pave a road leading to the highway, as well as build the bridge called Paso Fresno and the overpasses to cross the federal highway, however, to date these are unfinished.
In the third week of December, the road was blocked again, this time at kilometer 46 of the Barranca Larga-Ventanilla road. To relieve pressure, the state government, through the Secretary of Government (Sego), Jesús Romero López, accused that there is a conflict between the agency and the municipal capital, which is San Pablo Coatlán, over the execution of a public work in which San Francisco Coatlán demands that the public resources be given to it in cash to carry out the work; “they want the money to be given to them in cash and to impose their construction company, this is not how we can move forward,” accused the official, which generated greater irritation among the dissatisfied.
UNFINISHED WORKS
The representatives of the Coatlanes accuse that the only works that have been executed at 100 percent are two paving works carried out by the government of Oaxaca with an investment of 11 million pesos.
The unfinished works would have an investment of more than 113 million pesos, hence the threat of a blockade. Also at stake is the dispute over the route and the service of “suburbans” in the area. Just at the beginning of the year, a new terminal of the Coatlanes-Costa Route was inaugurated in the capital of Oaxaca, made up of a conglomerate of local lines. These same ones have already blocked it with the demand that only they travel on the super highway because they consider themselves “original owners” of the land.
However, users of said line have pointed out the irregularities that they commit under the cover of their protests and blockades, an example of this is a story on a Facebook account: “Good afternoon, today I traveled to Puerto Escondido, on a transportation line that was highly recommended to me on Facebook and when we were almost reaching the airport a COATLANES urban bus passed by, it was getting in front of the cars and taking the traffic lights!!!”
And that’s not all, another user said, “on the Ejutla bypass, while overtaking again, he crashed into the urban we were coming from and took off his mirror and was about to crash into the cars coming from the front!
I managed to take a photo of the truck, it’s number 97, I’m exposing this situation because it’s not possible that if they are providing a service they risk the lives of their passengers in this way!”
On January 3, one of the vehicles on the route overturned on the Barranca Larga Ventanilla on the Ocotlán Bypass at kilometer 2, at the height of the Santo Tomás Jalieza Tourist Stop: the vehicle was covering the Puerto-Escondido Oaxaca route, resulting in the accident injuring seven passengers.
Source: imparcialoaxaca
