The works for the construction of the new descent of the La Plata – Buenos Aires Highway on avenue 520, behind the Regional Market, are advancing without pause and in the last hours the company AUBASA that manages this expressway showed a video that shows the rhythm of the work
It is a distributor that at kilometer 51 of the route will join the highway with that avenue located between Tolosa and Ringuelet. It will be a road that will improve connectivity and relieve the traffic that currently overflows Diagonal 74 and the Avenida 32 roundabout.
A few days ago, the same company and the Buenos Aires government had shown photos of the work, but now they have released a video on social networks with aerial images showing the shape of the descent loop, as well as the details of jobs on the spot.
As reported by the provincial administration, the new descent will be completed by the first months of 2024. “Soil movement works are being carried out, construction of drainage culverts and beams of the bridge over the highway. The work period for the movement of soils is 10 months and six months for the bridge”, they detailed.
In the territory of La Plata, there are currently only two descents: one at Villa Elisa and the other at the end of the route at diagonal 74. The original project provides for 2 more descents: in addition to the 520 there is another projected at the height of the Ecological Park.
It should be noted that avenue 520 (provincial route 13) with which the new descent will connect is a fundamental artery in the greater La Plata region, that links national route 2 and provincial route 36 with the city of La Platathe zone of petrochemical center of Ensenada and Puerto La Plata. It crosses the horticultural and floricultural productive zone of the regionin addition to being the seat of numerous industrial companies, commercial service centers, hospitals and the Regional Market.
The highway concentrates a high flow of private, public and cargo transport. Because there is still no connection to the highway, it congests the descent closest to diagonal 74, which is the access to the Buenos Aires capital.
With the materialization of this descent, it will be possible to decompress the existing traffic in diagonal 74, favoring a more balanced distribution of vehicular flows throughout the regional territory.
