Let’s go to the point | More housing and rings: the proposals to decongest the city of Guatemala

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May 22, 2025May 22, 2025By Mario Vásquez
Let’s go to the point | More housing and rings: the proposals to decongest the city of Guatemala

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Initiatives range from enabling more housing units in the center and reducing trips, up to four rings that border highly populated areas. This was what we talked to Eddy Morataya, from the Municipality of Guatemala.

Guatemala City drives between eight and nine million daily trips on a business day. This represents an average of three trips per person. (PHOTO FREE PRESS: HEMERECA)

Eddy Morataya, manager of the Municipal Transportation Company of the Municipality of Guatemala He was invited in the first episode of the Videpodcast we go to the grainof Guatemala does not stop, in order to Find solutions to the massive daily entrance of vehicles to the capital.

Morataya, in a moderate conversation by Laysa Palomo, indicates that Guatemala City handles Between eight and nine million daily trips on a business day. This represents an average of approximately three trips.

Let’s go to the grain on the topic of traffic: 5 points

According to the expert, these are short and medium term actions that can be implemented:

  • Complete ring: Finish the peripheral ring that surrounds the city, especially in the south, connecting key points such as the University of San Carlos, the Tzul Atanasio and zones 13 and 14, to decongest internal routes.
  • Develop remaining rings: Consolidate the second ring that borders between Guatemala City and neighboring municipalities; the third; Connect urban centers of the surrounding municipalities and a fourth ring: of departmental scale, focused on the mobility of goods and production without the need to enter the capital.
  • Priority housing within the city: Implement accessible housing projects in urban areas that are less than 560 meters from a public transport station, to reduce car dependence.
  • More services outside the central municipality: Foster that the bedroom cities (such as Villa Nueva) develop educational, commercial and labor infrastructure so that residents can study, work and perform activities without moving to the capital.
  • Relocate logistics centers to peripheries: Decentralize supply and logistics properties currently located in central areas of the city.

You can play the complete conversation here on video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz6oatq-xdo

Or you can listen to it on Spotify:

We go to the point It is a VideoPódcast produced In alliance between free press and Guatemala it does not stop.

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