PASO OF THE ROOSEVELT: How much has the work advanced and when it is planned to conclude

The construction work of the overpass located on the Roosevelt and 9th Avenue in Zone 11, They have had advances during this week.

According to information provided by the Ministry of Communications, the foundry of beams is being carried out, in the structures that are fundamental to sustain the slabs that will be the base of the overpass.

“Currently, the smelting of the head beam is carried out in pile 7 and the assembly of the heads head in batteries 5 and 6,” the portfolio said by means of a statement.

Until May 30, 2025, the progress of the work reaches 51%, as reported.

The aforementioned Ministry confirmed that the documented physical advancement is 51.73%, while the executing financial progress is 49.57%.

Project

The total cost of the project is estimated at Q44 million 956 thousand 501, and is in charge of the Social Fund of Solidarity (FSS).

This consists in the construction of the overpass located between the roads Roosevelt and San Juan. It will have an estimated length of 402 meters and will improve the mobility of vehicles from zones 3, 7 and 11 that daily travel through these roads.

Within the construction work of this overpass, the improvement of storm drains, road signage, gardeners and pedestrian sidewalks to provide safety and better mobility to passers -by and motorists is included.

It is also indicated by the portfolio that the works are planned on December 22, 2025thus maintaining the deadlines announced in April.

Work suspended for more than two years

The construction of the overpass of the Roosevelt road began on September 1, 2022 and should be completed in 2023.

In November 2023, the work was first suspended, on that occasion the Ministry of Communications detected that a galvanized iron pipe was between batteries 3 and 5 of the work. This pipe transports water to zones 3 and 7, so these conductions would be relocated and the works would have been several weeks.

They also indicated that, in pile 7 of the structure a collector was located under its location, so it was established that a structural design was necessary to move it without damaging the work, so you could not continue with the works.

At the beginning of the year 2024 the then Minister of Communications Jazmín de la Vega affirmed that the company was known Cebco, in charge of the construction work of the overpass of the Roosevelt road and Petapa Avenue had declared bankruptcybut that if they were anuentes to end both projects.

In June of that same year the works were resumed. However, Not a month had elapsed since they resumed and the work was again suspended Due to the breach of the company in charge of the supervision, by not delivering an extension bond, according to FSS authorities.

On that occasion, FSS officials presented during a summons in Congress that the work was paralyzed because no project can be executed without supervision, and therefore had to manage that the CIV authorities appoint a temporary supervisor of the General Directorate of Roads (DGC).

Since then the work remained suspended until April of this year, when FSS personnel and the supervisory company in charge of the project made a field verification on the 22nd to verify that the works will be resumed by the CEBCO company.

However, these works were reactivated again After the resolution of an amparo by the Constitutional Court, (CC).

Uncertain work on Petapa Avenue

The Minister of Communications, Miguel Ángel Díaz, affirmed in March this year that The construction of the overpaper of Petapa Avenue had been suspended because the contract with the CEBCO company was terminatedthat is in charge of the work of the overpass on the Roosevelt road, this for breach of the contract.

At the beginning of May, the head of the Communications portfolio again referred to the subject during a summons in Congress where he commented that before thinking about the lifting and adjudication of a new event, An audit of the works that were carried out in this place must be made, To determine if they are stable and if they have the right conditions to continue working on them. Díaz also assures that it will depend on the company or companies that adhere to the event if the work on the same base continues. “It will depend on them at the time, if the work continues as they had started or collapses what I did,” he said.

Díaz also commented on that occasion that a “deep” analysis is being carried out, since there is still no decision on whether or not, a new bidding event for the construction of the overpass on Petapa Avenue.

The works were suspended due to the breach of the company for more than a year.

Both the overlapping of the Roosevelt road and that of Petapa Avenue, were awarded by the Ministry of Communications in 2022, during Alejandro Giammattei’s government to the CEBCO company, the first one for an amount of Q44.9 million and the second for Q82.5 million.