Public university, hospital of great complexity, depressed and tram: the promises of Gustavo Petro via Soacha

In the programthe government is listening‘, president Gustavo Petro He passed this Saturday, March 11, by Soacha, to meet with five inhabitants who, representing the community, made several requests, before hearing their development projects for the town.

Some of them would advance, while others would be Awaiting Approval in ongoing studies.

On issues related to education, for example, the Head of State promised the construction of a Public university, focused on training young Soachunos, preferably; whose programs will be designed in collaboration with the University of Cundinamarca.

With this in mind, the first thing to do is to decide where are they going to build the campus“You commit to a lot, it doesn’t even have to be 100% owned. There are norms, a law that was created not long ago where we can even use the possessions of public lands to be able to build the University of Soacha”.

And, to ensure that young people, middle school students, do not complete their educational project without receiving vocational training, he proposed that at least in the three schools that the Government will help to provide, students who are about to complete have approved university creditsso that they can continue their studies.

“You talk about three schools, including 80,000 million dollars, which the nation would provide because the municipality would provide 10,000 million. Look how weak the municipal budget is, it can’t put in anything important,” the president asked.

On the other hand, the president will tackle mobility issues on two fronts; identify, first, alternative means of transport which, in turn, manage to complete the track changes. Hence “the decision to sink or bury, in the words of the engineers, the southern highway from the beginning of Soacha to the exit of Bogotá, to the end”.

And the start of the projectcazable‘, first brought to the table over 8 years ago.

“Today I am told that the drawing will end this year, I don’t know if it exists, it can be done faster, because when I was mayor the drawing had started. I hope I can inaugurate it, that it doesn’t happen to me like the Ciudad Bolívar metro that we did, we financed it, we designed it, I laid the first stone, we started to build it and then Peñalosa inaugurated it. He didn’t even say thank you,” reproached the president.

During his term as mayor, he imagined a metro line that will connect Soacha to Bogotábut, now that he is president and knows the state of the nation’s finances, he feels that a metro line via Soacha could wait, whereas he rather considers the installation of a tram:

“I think it needs to be replaced a bit, as long as there is more money. One day with the tram, using the existing railway, which was also a project that was in our town hall, you can reach the route of the current town hall of the Bogotá metro, that is, partially , it can be articulated with the first metro line that currently exists”, he specified.

It refers to the creation of a high level public hospital; nail Chamber of Commerce exclusively for Soacha which, among other functions, helps the youngest to find a job, and, as a coup de grace, a monument tribute to more than 6 thousand false positivesmany of whom left Soacha, hoping for a better future.

“Mr. Minister of Culture, I believe that we should, through a national and international competition and with the help of artists, create the monument in Soacha to the 6,402 young people who died executed by the state in previous governments. It is here that the worst crime against humanity began and was uncovered,” he commented.