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Felipe Martín presented the opportunities and challenges of metropolitan transportation
12/05/2025
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The national director of Transportation, Felipe Martín, opened the Passenger Forum of ExpoCarga 2025, which presents the challenges and opportunities of passenger transportation and metropolitan mobility.
"We are going through a change of era, more than just a time of change," said Martín. Transportation needs to adapt to new realities and that requires thinking in a global, collective and mature way, said the director.
During his presentation, he highlighted the need to put aside partial views and recognize common identities in the social, economic, labor mobility and daily life, which today transcend administrative limits. "This reality must be warned and worked on by the authorities to build technically and legally viable programs."
In this context, he explained that four subsystems regulated by four different authorities converge (the MTOP and the municipalities of Montevideo, Canelones and San José), which need to find common paths that allow the creation of a coordinating authority. "Building authority is not the final solution, but it is the first step to advance accession agreements, tariff integration, unified billing and more efficient daily transportation management," stressing that it is essential to do it in time, to do it well.
He also highlighted the essentiality of preserving labor sources and recalled that there are already initiatives underway, credits and approved international cooperation - for the first time specifically aimed at the transport activity -, which open new opportunities.
"The question is: will we be able to? Maybe some things will not come to fruition, but what is essential is to create the conditions so that this challenge can come to fruition, in a progressive and well-planned manner." He referred to the program already projected and the work meetings held, coordinated with the institutions that are part of this process.
Finally, he thanked the ExpoCarga proposal that presents a space for construction, proposals and reflection among the actors in the sector, in order to achieve a more efficient, equitable and sustainable metropolitan model, especially in Maldonado, where San Carlos and Punta del Este - which concentrate 92% of the population of Maldonado - face a metropolitan challenge of great importance.
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