A third part of José Evaristo Uriburu Park from the Parque Patricios neighborhood yes closed for more than ten years. This was reported by the residents of the area, who warned about a Buenos Aires SE Subway Workshop (Sbase) that takes place in that place for the extension of the right to Line H, which It has not evolved since 2018. From Sbase they recognize that the workshop is present and confirm that It will only be removed when the job is done. extension of the line, which still has new stations to the south and north of the city.
“The workshop has been there since 2012. This year we put in a request for public information to find out what was happening with it and they replied that they had first given permission to send it to Techint and Dycasa, but that later it was taken over by Sbase with the argument of the network expansion plan. But we know that there is no news about that extension“, says Page 12 Romina Montanarione of the residents of the area who are organized in the group “Devolun el Uriburu” to ask for the reopening of that section of the park.
Leave out Techint-Dycasa who was in charge of the H extension work that started in 2011. Between that year and 2018, he built the stations Patricios Park and hospitalsto the south, and Córdoba, Santa Fe, Las Heras and the Faculty of Law, to the north. The Faculty of Law was the last to be established six years ago and on the other side of the town, so the neighbors cannot explain which part of the workshop is in the part of the park that faces the streets today. Pepiri and the ducks, meters from Hospitals, the current southern end of the line. Until now, the workshop still holding up the Techint-Dycasa construction poster.
At the end of April this year they received an official response to their request for information. In a document obtained by this newspaper, signed by the Works and Infrastructure manager, Ignacio BallesterSbase assured the neighbors that “he continues to this day to live in part of the mentioned park” after “the contractor’s workers withdrew.” This, they says, “because within the framework of the Network Expansion Plan works that are in the planning and design stage. “The workshop they will rise once they are started and finished the aforementioned work,” they said.
The same answer was received Page 12 when consulting sources from the state company. They said that they are holding the workshop based on the expansion plan of the subway network and due to the work that is in the “planning and design“. They specified that it is mainly about the H line extension is working which, of course, is incomplete.
According to the original plans, the H should reach south to the driveway Saenz link there to the Belgrano Sur train station. That work was awarded in 2011 – also to Techint-Dycasa – but never forward. In the north, at the same time, the line he should reach Retiro, but there is no news about it at all. Today no extension work is in progress or proposed in the near future or on the H or any other line of the network.
“At the moment there is not one job and However, the workshop is still there.. In these years It was taking up more and more space and we don’t even know what’s inside. because it is closed,” Montanari maintains in this sense and says “they cannot continue to live in a park as if nothing had happened, if they do planning activities They can do it in offices“. In a video made by neighbors based on Google Maps images of the park, located between Churruca and Penna hospitals, you can see how, in fact, the workshop grew over the years to take up more of the green space.
Another point of the application focuses on “ecological damage“which, they say, brings out the presence of the workshop in the area of the park that is more full of trees.”Most of the trees are inside the workshop“Warning Montanari. In the request for information they also asked for answers on that point and about the removal and trimming of the trees. From Sbase they answered that “the interventions are related to extraction and trimming of trees managed through the possible areas of the GCBA and the care of the specimens considered in the Environmental management plan“The neighbors were not sure if there would be a plan to recover the damage that could have been caused by the workshop.
In a statement, from “Devolun el Uriburu” several questions were asked still unanswered: “What are the conditions of the company there? What special activities do you perform? Are you going to compensate for the ecological damage you have done in some way? When are you going to return to the park? Was the company allowed to interfere with the trees in the park? msgid “How many trees were removed in total?”
They also released images of the current state of the section of the park that is open and facing Dr. Pedro Chutro Street and Almafuerte Avenue. “It is in a state of complete abandonment: there are no banks or they are broken, it is full rubbish“, the roads were completely destroyed, the image was damaged and abandoned, the same with the playgrounds,” said Montanari, who concludes, therefore, that the application is two- folded: “Recover the partition that contained Sbase and remove it from the abandoned state“.
