📋 Tender Overview
Between today and tomorrow, load tests will be carried out to open the bridge this Friday, February 6Today, Tuesday, February 3, at noon, the mayor of Lima, Renzo Reggiardo, carried out an inspection of the assembly, completed this morning, of the first of the four provisional pedestrian bridges of the Via Expresa Sur.
There are 4 provisional bridges that are already in the implementation stage. The definitive bridges will be available to users this year, it is a fact, they will not take any longer, the mayor told the press.
The work, carried out by the Municipal Company to Support Strategic Projects (Emape) - a body attached to the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima (MML) - consisted of raising and placing three modules of metal structures, called walkways, on the towers already positioned on Esteban Camere Street in the Surco district. The goal is to provide better pedestrian walkability and safe access to neighbors.
After the assembly of the first bridge, signaling, a zebra crossing will be carried out and paths will be built for pedestrian traffic. In addition, between today and tomorrow the corresponding load tests will be carried out; The bridge is expected to open on Friday, February 6.
WORKS ON THE OTHER PROVISIONAL AND DEFINITIVE BRIDGES
The foundations are being built for the second provisional pedestrian bridge, located on Dona Elsa Street. The placement of the metal structures is planned on the night of Tuesday, February 10.
For its part, on the third and fourth bridge, which will be on Vicus Street and Jiron Garcia Garcia respectively, excavations begin on Monday, February 9 in parallel, and it is estimated that they can be enabled by the end of this month.
The installation of the four temporary pedestrian bridges, each 60 meters long, will be completed in approximately six weeks.
After that, the construction of the final pedestrian bridges, which will be made of reinforced concrete and reinforced with metal structures in the steel beams and pillars, will begin in about two months, since the final studies are currently being finalized. The building will be ready in four months.
The Via Expresa Sur, by joining the Via Expresa Luis Bedoya Reyes with the Panamericana Sur, mainly benefits residents of Barranco, Surco, San Juan de Miraflores and Villa El Salvador, who will be able to have an additional mobility axis to Huaylas Avenue. This new route has decongested these intersections and travel times have been reduced from one hour to 20 or 30 minutes.
