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“This is scary, someone can trip,” said Mayra Márquez, a woman from Cartagena who crosses the Chambacú bridge every day to get to her workplace in the San Diego neighborhood of the Historic Center.
And the fact is that the poor condition in which the railings and other pedestrian spaces of this bridge are found has citizens who travel through the area every day concerned.
On a tour that he made The universal From the early hours of the day it was possible to appreciate the deterioration that the repairing works carried out in the asphalt layer also present.
Other pedestrians qualify as “death traps” the wear on the metal railings of the bridge and criticize the lack of a prevention tape to avoid accidents.
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In October 2020, the Fundación Verde Que Te quiero Verde denounced an alleged patrimonial detriment to the District for the execution of the repairing works on the Chambacú bridges and the Jiménez bridge, which after two months of being carried out already showed signs of deterioration. Read: They denounce deterioration in works of the Jiménez and Chambacú bridges
According to the Foundation, the works that were executed through a contract of minimum amount for $ 87,357,700 in the month of August, were done with low quality and in the case of the Chambacú bridge “aspects such as platforms and drains ”.
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Despite the fact that the complaint reached the hands of the Comptroller’s Office and the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation, nothing has happened and the state of the bridge remains the same.
District responds
In this regard, the District Infrastructure Secretariat reported that they are continuing efforts to establish budgets and thus prioritize the intervention of bridges in the city.
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