The government has inaugurated new road infrastructure on 27 de Febrero avenue, main artery of the inhabitants of the capital, used by the highest number of vehicles in the metropolitan area. The structures built feature the best quality engineering standards of any developed country. The open tunnels are in themselves an innovation for this country, a road design well thought out to expedite traffic flow.

When there’s good infrastructure the economic system’s competitiveness and productivity improve considerably. The citizens feel that their tax money is being efficiently invested and with utilitarian use to raise the quality of life of society as a whole. We already see in the case of 27 de Febrero avenue, an easy moving route with a redesign made up of trench covered and tunnels.

Nonetheless, with the modernization of these infrastructures, it’s also necessary to modernize and update the traffic lights placed in the route’s different intersections. The traffic lights are old and aren’t synchronized. That produces continuous traffic jams in many of the 27 intersections, because the traffic lights aren’t adjusted to the changes of synchronization that must allow vehicles to travel expeditiously and quickly.

There are several examples such as the 27 intersections with Winston Churchill, Lincoln, Núñez de Cáceres and La Privada, where traffic jams form, a situation that contrasts with these great engineering investments which have been erected in busy sections of this route to improve urban traffic.

Another aspect that spoils these large road constructions is the lack of electrical energy for the street lighting system. The 27 is a practically dark route and dims its splendor for the capital. What leads to this situation hasn’t been explained, why that main avenue doesn’t count on sufficient lights that work and that are always lit. The country grows and modernizes but there’s no lighting street system on the roads and avenues.