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Contracting of road equipment and local labor for road maintenance. That is the request of the Esmeraldas Transportation Front, whose members protested with a closure at the height of the Codesa roundabout, south of the city of Esmeraldas, on the morning of this Wednesday, February 16.
Carlos Chicaiza, a dump truck, commented that another drawback is the low prices per kilometer that they pay for transporting stone material.
Residents blocked the Esmeraldas-San Lorenzo road to demand works and more security
This claim goes to the companies contracted to carry out road works and that come from other provinces. These values are not enough to cover operating expenses and payment of personnel, said Jefferson Morales, leader of Quinindé.
In the province of Esmeraldas, some 350 dump trucks are operating, grouped into organizations from Rioverde, Atacames, Quinindé and Esmeraldas, which demand to be hired by companies and municipalities that carry out road works, said Kléver Andrade, transportation leader.
The carriers also requested that the municipal ordinance that requires the hiring of 80% of the local workforce be complied with.
The political boss, Víctor Orellana, offered a meeting with this union for Monday, February 21, together with the governor Tania Obando.
Carlos García, president of the Transporter Front, warned that, if there were no answers from this dialogue, they would resume the protests at another level.
More than $4 million would cost the rehabilitation of the Esmeraldas-Quinindé road, according to a study by the MTOP
They hope that the meeting will be with the mayors of the seven cantons, authorities of the National Transit Agency (ANT) and the Ministry of Transportation and Public Works (MTOP).
The closure of the road axis in the Jaime Hurtado roundabout affected for a few hours the mobility of vehicles and buses to and from the land terminal, and between the south and center of the Esmeralda capital. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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