This Wednesday 5, pedestrian and vehicular traffic will be closed on the E10, at the height of km. 114, to try to enable the road with heavy machinery work.
Ibarra
There is despair and shortages in 14 communities that continue to be cut off since last December 21, 2021, after the landslides registered at kilometer 114 of the Ibarra – San Lorenzo highway (E 10), in the El Guadual sector.
Carlos Viteri, president of the La Carolina Parish Board, reported that there are approximately 2,400 people held incommunicado due to the landslides registered 15 days ago, which took part of the road table in one sector and blocked the road in another section.
“Advantageously, state machinery managed to clean up the first collapse, preventing people from continuing to move up cliffs, pikes and dangerous trails or using motorcycles that charged 1 dollar between the two collapses or tarabitas,” emphasized the authority.
This newspaper showed that in the isolated populations there are speculations in the prices of the products and articles that the stores offer. In some cases, their values have doubled and even tripled.
Viteri commented that, after several steps, the gas distributor entered the route: Ibarra – Urcuquí – Tumbabiro – Cahuasquí – Pablo Arenas – Buenos Aires – La Carolina to supply the besieged populations.
The vehicles that transported the products took up to four hours to reach their destinations, traveling through uncovered roads. Dealers were offering each cylinder for $ 5, when its normal price is $ 3.
Meeting with leaders of six local governments
This Tuesday the 4th, the presidents of the parish councils of Jijón and Caamaño, and El Goaltal in Carchi; Lita, La Carolina and Buenos Aires, in Imbabura and Alto Tambo de Esmeraldas held a new meeting with technicians from the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP).
At the meeting, it was reported that the material that blocked the road in the first landslide had already been dislodged. Now MTOP technicians seek to establish the distance from the table that was lost to study the probability of installing a bailey bridge and enabling mobility.
Detachment of the mountain took away a section of the track table in the El Guadual sector that connects the northern Sierra with Esmeraldas
This Wednesday 5 will be closed pedestrian and vehicular traffic on the E10, at kilometer 114, to carry out work with heavy machinery and try to enable the road.
The Political Tenure is informing through social networks that there will be no passage for people who cross the landslide on foot or using pulleys.
The authorities recommend frequent users to use the roads: Ibarra – Tulcán – Chical – El Carmen, in Carchi; or the Ibarra – Pablo Arenas – Buenos Aires – La Carolina road, in Imbabura.
José Cortés, president of the Alto Tambo Parish Council, commented that they cannot commercialize products such as seafood, fruits, coconuts, which leave from Esmeraldas to Ibarra, Quito and the center of the country. (I)
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