Lima Expresa works in the Ricardo Palma bridge to provide safety to drivers of Vía de Evitamiento

As is public knowledge, last Thursday night a high-load vehicle impacted the Ricardo Palma vehicular bridge, which is on the Vía de Evitamiento (Cercado de Lima), seriously affecting two of its longitudinal beams, leaving it in a precarious and uncertain resistance situation, which determines the risk of collapse of these.

It is worth mentioning that the Ricardo Palma vehicular bridge is not part of Lima Expresa's concession assets and its structural repair is the exclusive competence of the Metropolitan Municipality of Lima (MML).

Despite this, since the weekend and until this Thursday, the Lima Expresa Maintenance and Works team has diligently carried out, at the request of EMAPE, emergency interventions to support the Municipality of Lima with preventive work in the face of the possible collapse of the impacted beams, shoring them up in the lateral and central berms of the Vía de Evitamiento.

The tasks of placing supports concluded in the early hours of Wednesday morning and will be there until the Municipality of Lima concludes the definitive solution. With this, vehicular traffic at the top of the bridge, which is currently closed, could be reopened after the technical evaluation of the Municipality.

Since it began its emergency intervention, Lima Expresa is also monitoring the condition of the two damaged beams of the Ricardo Palma bridge, as well as being in charge of shoring without affecting the fluidity of the Vía de Evitamiento and ensuring the safety of drivers.

We regret the inconveniences that thousands of people are having to move around the area. We are waiting for EMAPE to conclude a plan for the repair of the damage to this bridge in the very short term, because this situation represents an unsafe condition for both the users of the vehicular bridge and for our customers who travel under it.

Finally, we recommend that carriers and transport companies when they circulate on the Vía de Evitamiento they are clear about the height of each of the bridges. In the case of the Ricardo Palma bridge and all the bridges of our concession have the corresponding signage.