The El Paseo del Bajo Freeway is a palpable reality on Buenos Aires Waterfront
Attempts of all kinds were mounted to abort this major work that Buenos Aires City has had the opportunity to inaugurate. The El Paseo del Bajo is already a reality. The new 7.1km motorway improves the circulation of more than 25,000 vehicles per day and Its exclusive truck lanes allow them to travel faster and gives them direct access to the port. Although it is a toll road there are no booths as the fee is collected electronically. In addition, 60,000 m² of new green spaces and the removal of historic barriers…
Buenos Aires infrastructure is being rebuilt, another city is born
The first improvements to the city of Buenos Aires were very small. Its first name was Santa Maria del Buen Ayre, in 1536, then forty years later it was renamed the City of the Trinity. It was only in 1779 that real changes began with major works affecting its inhabitants. That first change meant the installation of lights to the length and breadth of what was then just something more than a large village. Its leader, Juan José Vértiz, was known as “the Viceroy of the Lighting Systems”. Almost…
