He Collective Tren Ecuador, which brings together communities, former railway workers, section governments (especially Imbabura, Esmeraldas and Chimborazo), media, production unions, artisan organizations, citizens in general, interested in the restoration of the train. in the country, denounced that after two years to date The transfer of assets from the Ministry of Tourism to the Ministry of Transport and Public Works has not been completed. This after he heard it from Minister César Rohon himself, in the interview program.

In that sense, The group requested that the candidates for president of the Republic declare about this problem. The group maintains that the rehabilitation of the railway is an urgent problem, because it is an infrastructure that is being destroyed, and the companies that made investment offers worth millions are left waiting for an answer. During this government, the executive branch tried to improve the law on public-private partnerships, which does not exist to this day due to the non-execution of the ousted Assembly, he says.

They also say that they saw it with surprise the train project was withdrawn from the investment portfolio issued by the Secretariat for Public-Private Investments. For this reason, the collective calls on the citizens and authorities of the territories involved in the operation of the train: “To declare together in order to once again call for a serious and technically based tender with the supervision of the citizens, in order to guarantee in the future a project that really serves the development and progress of the country, bearing in mind that the railway is not political spoils or campaign discourse, but represents the heritage of all Ecuadorians”.

For the team, rehabilitation of the train would be a work with a great social impact. They assure that it was a mistake to break it up without measuring the consequences in the short, medium and long term.

The announcement states that the candidates for president of the Republic for the next shortened period expressed the urgency of fighting crime, a problem that requires their priority attention, but without attacking the lack of employment it is impossible to have the hoped-for results.

Railway project This will create sources of employment and links with other operations such as ports and airports, which was taken into account in some offers that participated in the tender announced by the government of former President Lenín Moreno.

The group claims that the railway initiative it will pay off in a comprehensive way, not in sections, nor if it is oriented exclusively to the elite tourist niche. One must think in such a way that it has sustainability.