College of Engineers and Arquitects
Want A Declaration Of A State of
Emergency Over Bridge Situation
The Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y de
Arquitectos (CFIA) is calling on the
government to declare a national emergency
over the state of the nation's bridges and
is asking the presidential candidates to
include the subject in their works projects.
The call comes after an intensive study
completed by the CFIA on the state of the
bridges in the country, this after the
debacle over the "platina" situation on the
Virilla bridge.
You remember, the bridge that paralyzed the
Central Valley on three separate occasions
when work on the bridge closed the East-West
route of the General Cañas for more than 48
hours on each occasion. And the bridge that
still sports a 10cm gap between its spans.
The CFIA is using the Virilla as an
indicator of the situation that is common on
many bridges around the country, mainly due
to the lack of maintenance by this and
previous governments, where bridges are left
to deteriorate, while vehicular traffic
passing over them has greatly increased.
The board of directors of the CFIA is asking
that this government and future governments
make bridge maintenance and repair a
priority and only by declaring a national
emergency will the problem be taken
seriously.
The CFIA claim is supported by a study of
the Laboratorio Nacional de Materiales y
Modelos Estructurales (Lanamme) and to take
the dust off the study done by the Agencia
de Cooperación Japonesa (Jaica), with the
idea that that the Dirección de Puentes del
Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Transportes (MOPT)
use the document as a basis for planning
their maintenance and rehabilitation work.
The CFIA will be also looking to make the
bridge situation an issue in the upcoming
presidential elections.
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