They seek to make the new central highway project that connects Lima and Huancayo viable, cheaper and safer.

He Lima Departmental Council of the College of Engineers of Peru (CIP) proposed a new route to make viable the new Central Highway Lima – Huancayo to make it safer in the presence of mudslides and to reach the Peruvian Andes more quickly.

specialists in CIP Commissariat for Transportduring a press conference, presented technical arguments in favor of an alternative layout for the new central highway which represents greater advantages in terms of transfer time from Lima to Huancayo and construction time.

In this direction, Jorge Gutiérrez, member of the CIP Transport Commission, He maintained that in 2022, his working group carried out an analysis of the proposal of the regional government of Junín, where they detected technical problems of the route proposed for the new central highway.

Subsequently, the CIP Transport Commission also found shortcomings in the Green Corridor provided by PMO-Francebecause it is a variant and not a new trait.

“In addition to presenting problems, they are the overlap with more than 30 km of ‘Qhapaq Ñan’, an archaeological area declared a World Heritage Site; the crossing of several cities, which involves property damage ; or its passage through the ravine of Lurín where, according to Ingemmet, there are risks of huaicoslandslides and floods,” Gutiérrez said.

Faced with this problem, the Commission of the CIP-CD Lima instead proposed taking into account an alternative based on a study initiated by the Lima Regional Governmentwhere a new highway is created that follows the Chutana-Olleros-Huarochirí-Cochas-Canchayllo-Pachacayo route.

“This has advantages such as saving time to travel from Lima to Huancayo, facilitating the flow of vehicles from the city of Lima and the south of the country, a route with fewer problems of land rights and landslides due to rain“commented the specialist.

Specialists from the Transport Commission of the College of Engineers of Peru have supported a new proposal for a new central highway.
Specialists from the Transport Commission of the College of Engineers of Peru have supported a new proposal for a new central highway.

Likewise, the representative of the CIP maintained that this alternative of the new central highway will allow a decentralization of the capital and an improvement of the quality of life of those who live in the surroundings, impacting on the tourism and the trade.

“Certainly we appreciate what a government-to-government agreement means, we appreciate French engineering, but obviously the PMO has been steered towards a proposal that we believe is not the best,” a- he said for his part. Roque Benavides, Dean of CIP-CD Lima.

Likewise, Benavides said that the route that starts from La Chutana would not have major expropriations or pre-assignments, this would also result in lower costs and lower work execution times compared to the PMO France proposal.

Benavides also pointed out that there is still time to make this proposal viable, which will make it possible to reach a better alternative as soon as possible for the new central highway which will have a positive impact on Peru’s economy.

Likewise, the Dean put on the table the recent comments of the Minister of Transport and Communications, Paola Lazartewho specified that in the next few days he will convene the College of Engineers to hear his approach.

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