Arteris Litoral Sul was unable to set a delivery date for the Greater Florianópolis road contour.
He promised the ANTT (National Land Transport Agency) a “maximum date” of July 2024, but actual completion, when everything is absolutely ready, still depends on the progress of work going forward.
Four missed deadlines for a project that is vital to the continued economic and social development of the entire state. The agency that regulates the work has now warned for the fifth time that progress will need to be monitored on a weekly basis on fear of compromising its completion.
Even the agency itself no longer trusts the company, which, as reported in Thursday’s column, has already been fined more than 500 million reais. The director general of the federal agency himself, at a press conference held this Friday afternoon (20), admitted that he still needs guarantees from Arteris to set an exact date.
Even with all this debt to the local community, representatives of the press were denied access to the delegation, which inspected the entire route running from Palos, in Guarda do Cubatão, to Biguaçu, at kilometer 177, near the landfill.
A grotesque and unfriendly attitude towards a population tired of waiting.
Road outline
The Greater Florianópolis Road Contour, revered today as Brazil’s premier road infrastructure project, pits an audacious project to improve mobility against a reality that scales the damage at different levels, becoming yet another national example of neglect and delay.
The “Road Contour” is an express corridor with an operating speed of up to 100 km/h, which crosses four municipalities and is intended to alleviate, above all, the heaviest traffic on the insoluble road BR-101.
The initial budget was 400 million reais, but before completion the work in the region will cost at least 3.9 billion reais – an increase of approximately 875%.
Source: Ndmais