From the announcement of the donation until today, through the arrival and the frustrated ‘white march’, ‘Vacuum test’ and ‘work table’, the Lima-Chosic Train has faced the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima (MML) and al Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC) in a discussion due to the viability of its execution in the short, medium and long term.
And, on the one hand, the mayor Rafael López Aliaga promotes and insists that locomotives and cars begin to roll “already”; But, on the other, the minister César Sandoval alert and remember that the route that seeks to connect to the first port with the east end of the capital does not have “crossings, whereabouts, stations” or other conditions to start.
Lima-Chosic Train Brakes
The discussion between both institutions of the State is not today or the day advertisement (11/15/2024) The assignment of the units by the Government of California, United States, and the company Caltrain. The ‘clashes’ began on May 13, when the MTC asked for technical details to the Mmland this did not respond.
However, the messages through the media continued and, on June 26, the Lima Burgomaster announced the final date of arrival and the immediate start of tests with passengers on board, which was completely ruled out by the transport authority the next day because “user safety is not guaranteed.”
Three days later, it was the time of -Now -former executive president of the Urban Transportation Authority for Lima and Callao (ATU), David Hernández, who reinforced that “there are no security conditions to initiate operations of the Lima -Chosic Train“.” The technical steps cannot be ignored, “or stop, he said.
“We are waiting for the answer to be referred to, because we would have to do under what conditions the concession could be expanded (…) operate the trains or, otherwise, see the alternatives they propose,” he said César Sandovalon July 2 at the Press Conference after the Council of Ministers.
Lima-Chosic Train derail
July 3, Rafael López Aliaga He admitted not having a start of operations for the new means of transport and ruled out the white march: “‘Vacuum test’ is the technical term. If there is good will, it could be done around July 28, as a gift for Lima this.”
On the 9 of this month, it was the time of the Supervisory Agency for the investment in Public Use Transport Infrastructure (Ositrán), by means Mml.
Given this, the mayor of Lima accused the MTC to “politicize the subject” and, above all, to “put obstacles” to the implementation of the desired Lima -Chosic Train; The head of Transportation responded by stating that “they are not obstacles, it is the law”, and, in addition, he described the burgomaster as “ordinary and aggressive”, by means of a statement published on July 14. That same day, the train arrived and derailed.
The Lima-Chosic Train table
On 07/15, the National Superintendence of Customs and Tax Administration (SUNAT) entered the debate for the alleged imbalance in the “donation” received by the Mmlwhich went from $ 4.9 million to $ 224 million. On 07/17, César Sandoval announced the creation of a ‘work table’ for 07/22 with the aim of seeing the viability of the train.
However, a day later the leader of the Lima commune announced that he would not attend: “I will send a delegation, technical people, to explain our plan”; At the same time, through a cartoon on Facebook, he accused Alliance for Progress (APP, Minister of Transportation) of boycotting this mobility alternative for this Lima: “If the train works, you throw you.”
This July 21, on the eve of the technical meeting between all entities related to transport already Limethe minister of MTC He said that “I regret a lot (his absence), because (the mayor) said: ‘Let’s talk, let’s talk’ and when we say: ‘Let’s talk,’ he despises the call. It is his nature of being.”
Precisely, when leaving the technical work table, where Ositrán, ATU, Ferrovías Central Andina SA (Concessionaire), a delegate of the Municipality of Lima and the Minister of Transportationthe latter announced that there will be no Lima-Chosic Train This year, while announcing a second meeting on 24/07 to decide “which of the three alternatives” would apply to execute the project in the future.
However, this second meeting may never come or do not give the same faces, since Rafael López Aliaga denounced that César Sandoval “has no knowledge in the matter” and yes “an absolute lack of political will to carry out this service”, so he placed President Dina Boluarte to “evaluate her permanence” in said portfolio.
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