Surely anyone who has passed through the Punto Cero bridge has ever thought about what would happen if the plumb line that adorns the viaduct built more than 25 years ago falls. This Thursday, that fear almost came true.
A sheet that covers the famous plumb line of 800 kilos, six meters high and two wide, which hangs over the road, was about to come off. Carlos Muñoz Betancur, Dagrd’s deputy director of Disaster Management, explained that citizens alerted the situation in time.
“Eight firefighters units responded to the report of the detachment of the sheet; They arrived at the site with a machine to remove the element. Thanks to timely attention, an unfortunate situation was prevented. We coordinate with the Ministry of Mobility to deal with the case,” said Betancur.
The risk was not minor. According to the Ministry of Mobility through said viaduct they mobilize daily 75,000 vehiclesso a possible landslide could have caused a considerable emergency.
Now the Secretary of Physical Infrastructure will be in charge of the pertinent interventions to restore the conditions of the emblematic lead weight that adorns the Jorge Molina Moreno interchange, the real name of the bridge that everyone known for two decades as Punto Cero.