Global Courant 2023-05-16 11:38:06
Due to its affordable prices, lines of credit and financing, the number of motorcycles in the Industrial Capital has grown exponentially in the last five years.
Motivated by insecurity and comfort, men and women buy a motorcycle. Only in San Pedro Sula there are 106,828 motorcycles, in Villanueva 17,085 and in Choloma 26,760 of these units.
Until October 2022, the Property Institute (IP) registered 79,486 motorcycles in San Pedro Sulathat is to say that in six months 27,342 have been added to the vehicle fleet.
Fact
For more than 10 years, in San Pedro Sula the modernization of transportation through the Metrosula has been planned.
At that time, the overall vehicle fleet in the city was 292,567 vehicles (cars and motorcycles), currently it is 368,061 (75,494 more vehicles).
To this figure we must add some 350,000 vehicles that enter the San Pedro Sula and that belong to other municipalities, that is, floating vehicle park.
Faced with an excessive growth of cars and motorcycles and a deficit in public works, the people of Sampedranos experience a “road hell” on a daily basis. The three boulevards; North, South and East collapse in the morning and in the evening.
Victor Cerratohead of the Traffic Accident Investigation Section (Siat), said that infrastructure projects such as uneven bridges, returns, extensions and interchanges have had a positive impact on the flow of automobiles, however, the high number of cars and motorcycles, and that they add daily Furthermore, it makes it impossible to decongest roads.
He indicated that several returns have been closed and that traffic has been transferred where there are bays, traffic lights and that they are designed for that function.
“The flow is a little faster, but obviously the growth of the vehicle fleet does not stop and every time new designs have to be made, adapting new ways so that traffic is faster.”
Statistics
The vehicle park in Villanueva is 42,899 vehicles and in Choloma 61,894. All of those enter San Pedro Sula.
Cerrato pointed out that the southern boulevard is one of the ones that receives the greatest load and that there are still many areas in the city that require traffic lights and there are none.
Fabian Brown, president of the Honduran Chamber of the Construction Industry (Boy), Northwestern Chapter, declared that road infrastructure projects have had results, but there are many points already identified as problematic and nothing is done about it, such as Social Security, where at least one lane is used by drivers who park Deliberately, he also emphasized the need to build pedestrian bridges, create efficient public transportation, open new alternate routes, but most urgently, repair the second ring road, the bypass so that heavy cargo does not enter San Pedro Sula and the construction of a third ring.
Allan Castellanosa development expert, explained that to carry out the large works that the city requires, the mayor’s office is not enough, the support of the Central government.
“You should also think of a tram that uses the railway line and think of BR buses in a lane for buses only and thus order traffic,” he said.
