The construction work on the elevated Progreso viaduct, built on 82 Street and runs through the entire center of the city, will be completed by next December, six months later than projected.
The entry into operation of the new road isn’t defined. It could be ready in January, according to information provided by personnel from Associated Civil Engineers (ICA) Infrastructure, the company in charge of this million-dollar project.
They will settle the cost in March 2025 because after completing the elevated viaduct in December 2024, the company will work on 82 Street, finishing the paving, lighting, gardening, and bicycle lanes, among other complementary works.
The work began on Tuesday, June 13, 2023, and, according to the project, it was to be completed on June 30 of this year so that its opening on July 1, 2024, would coincide with the anniversary of the founding of Progreso.
ICA Infrastructure engineers confirmed that the delay was due to the original project having to be modified, and they expanded the 2.2-kilometer viaduct projected. The finished work will have a length of 2.7 kilometers, from the alternate viaduct of the high port to the junction with the Mérida-Progreso highway, passing over the central 82nd street.
Likewise, they detail that the entire elevated viaduct will have 58 columns, of which 10 have their foundations on swampy ground. East Some mangroves were affected by these works.
In the original project of the elevated viaduct, which starts from 25th and 82nd streets, adjacent to the alternate viaduct of the high port, it would connect with the Mérida-Progreso highway on the west side of the road to Mérida leaving the port. The viaduct would pass over the lower part of the road distributor bridge on the west side at the height of streets 84 and 86. Due to circumstances during the execution that affected the drilling for the bases of the columns, the project had to be modified. Instead of the detour on the west side of 82nd, it headed south until it passed over the end of South 80th Street.
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