Efraín Bastidas was appointed as the new manager of the Quito Metro

The afternoon of this Friday, October 22, 2021 Efrain Bastidas was chosen as new manager of the Quito Metro. The board of directors of this municipal company met in telematic means.

Bastidas is the ninth designated manager in the history of the Metro, the second presented by the mayor Santiago Guarderas, taking into account the appointment of Allan Peñafiel that he made in his period from July 19 to 30.

This directory also decided rectify the management model for the operation and maintenance of the project. It had been ratified on September 29 by Jorge Yunda, the same day that the Constitutional Court decided to nullify the legal measures that kept him in the Mayor’s Office.

David Dávalos, The oversight spokesperson who analyzed the management model said that the board’s decision in the first instance it tunes in with your order, to analyze the model to be applied. He also said that they have requested a meeting with the new manager and Guarderas to collaborate on the project’s roadmap.

However, he pointed out that draws attention the possible signing of the contract “with a structuring whose selection process was flawed ”. For Dávalos, it should cancel the hiring process of this structuring agent until the management model is decided.

In other words, from the moment the board decides on the model, start a new hiring process for the structuring of the Quito Metro as a company.

The members of the veeduría see with good eyes that the new management model is by handing over the entire operation to a foreign company and maintenance to another, which could be the same train builder, according to its spokesperson.

Meanwhile, the The expected date for the start of operations of the most expensive project in the history of the capital is uncertain. The instability in the Mayor’s Office of Quito and the constant change of managers has kept the essential components for operations such as the collection system, navigation and emergency systems, stopped.

After finishing the session in which he was taken over by the Metro manager, Guarderas highlighted the experience and trajectory of the new official. “It leads us to give him the responsibility of directing this emblematic project for the city and the country. We demand efficient and transparent management ”, said the mayor.

Efrain Bastidas He has a PhD in Infrastructure Engineering, in addition, a Master’s in Transportation Engineering, in Business Administration and he has a degree as a mechanical engineer from the National Polytechnic School of Ecuador. What’s more, already worked in the Quito Metro, He served as Coordinator of Mobility and Transportation from June 2010 to June 2012 and as COO in the period from June 2012 to May 2014. (I)