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A pleasant meeting was had by the elected mayor of Bogotá, Carlos Fernando Galán; that of Medellín, Federico ‘Fico’ Gutiérrez; and the one from Cali, Alejandro Eder, last Friday, November 24 in Cartagena, within the framework of the XX National Infrastructure Congress, where the incoming leaders recalled some of the plans that they will implement in this area in their cities.
After the activities The three took a photo that both Gutiérrez and Eder published on their official accounts from social network X.
“What a good meeting with my colleagues (…) We are going to work together for our people. Optimism and hope in what is coming for our Colombia (sic)”, ‘Fico’ trilled.
While his counterpart in the Valle del Cauca city expressed in X: “Great meeting (…) We capitals have a great responsibility with the well-being of the country.”
At that event, Eder focused on the ambitious project of a tcommuter rail for Cali with which it hopes to generate 8,000 new jobs.
“It is the most important work that we will carry out to Relive mobility, generate employment and move the economy (…) We talked about the financing of the project with the FDN (National Development Finance) who are willing to provide all the support (. ..) I had a meeting with the French embassy. “Those who put at our disposal the Cooperation with Technology Europe, technical knowledge transfer training and the dissolution of supporting urban renewal issues (sic),” he explained in a thread of trills.
Meanwhile, Galán was emphatic that his administration will not stop the metropolitan train project which is currently being built in Bogotá.
“The vote of October 29 It is a clear and forceful mandate for the Bogotá Metro to advance as contracted, be completed and come to fruition. We are going to fulfill that mandate and ensure that the work is done efficiently and transparently,” he published in X.
The elected mayor of the Colombian capital He added that joint work is required with various sectors of the city for these projects to come true.
“Our bet is to consolidate Bogotá as an investment hub in different sectors, including infrastructure. For this, it will be essential to strengthen the institutions, improve security and work on coordination between the different actors. Thank you @investinbogota, we take your concerns and ideas (sic) with us,” he trilled.
Although it was recently confirmed that Galán had been chosen to succeed Claudia López, the current president celebrated, even saying that this would be her Christmas gift. The elected mayor began to distance himself from his future predecessor.
One of the most forceful messages was in the interview he gave to the magazine Mouthswhere He assured that the security policies that López implemented during his administration failed given the poor results that are reflected in the city’s indicators.
Furthermore, in terms of mobility and infrastructure, Galán expressed his objections to the green corridor project in Carrera Séptima, in another newspaper interview The viewer.
“I stated in my government program that I wanted to advance quickly on the section of 100th Street to the north, I don’t see any complex drawbacks to that. That one can advance and that is my bet. But towards the south, I do see problems that need to be solved. As? With an impact on real citizen participation. That is the main thing, that it manages to solve the public transport problem in that area, but that mobility does not collapse,” he explained.
However, in the accountability of his mayoralty, Claudia López assured that this project had no reverse either and that she would be hired for the section of the 100 towards the center.
“It is a very important work: the Metro viaduct is 24 kilometers, and the green corridor viaduct is 22 (…) It starts at 24th and Seventh Streets and ends at 200th Street. 11 kilometers have already been contracted and the other 11 are still in tender and will be awarded to complete the entire network of works for the first metro line,” held.
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