Rains in Lima: the central highway will be interrupted for a few hours due to the activation of the streams

He Defense Minister Jorge Chávez Crestaannounced that this Tuesday traffic will be interrupted for a few hours in the central roaddue to the activation of some streams that affected the road that goes from Lima to the central highlands.

“Among the actions that have been carried out, there is the guarantee of the practicability of the roads. It was coordinated by the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC)that the way of central roadin a few hours, it will be interrupted to guarantee the safety of our population,” the minister told a press conference.

Also, the owner of Department of Defense noted that all staff of the Armed forces and the National Police of Peru (PNP) to protect the lives of citizens heading to different destinations in the capital.

For its part, the Urban Transport Authority (ATU) reported that before heavy rain and the stream activation It has been established that the conventional transport routes that run along the axis of Avenue Carapongo and the central road shorten your route to Ñaña, in coordination with the PNP and the Municipal Commonwealth of Lima East.

In the afternoon, Internet users reported on social networks that several districts of the central road they had been impacted by the overflow of the river and broken following the heavy rains. Several public transport vehicles were trapped in the middle of the water and mud.

Following the red alert declaration issued by the SNational Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Peru (Senamhi) for the metropolis of Lima due to heavy rains and extreme intensity, Superintendence of Land Transport of Persons, Freight and Goods (Sutran), an entity attached to the MTC, recommended that users of interprovincial transport take precautions and postpone their trips to and from Lima, as well as to areas where adverse weather conditions have been recorded.

The measure is intended to preserve its integrity in light of the risk to life of exposure to falling mud and rocks to which they could be exposed due to possible interruptions in the road. It should be noted that, within the framework of its attributions, the Tomorrow He informed operators of land terminals of the current state of the roads so that transport companies proceed with the suspension of the departure of buses until traffic is restored.