Dehydration and abandonment of injury to the Shaboltebek corridor; Invest 250 MDP

After five years of rehabilitation, with an investment of 250 million pesos, the Chapoltebec Street Pass – in the stretch of the Balloween of the rebels – appears dry and deteriorated today, and alert specialists and the neighbors of the region.

Most types of pilgrims and other decorative species that have been planted as part of the reintegration are fully withered or dead.

During the management of Miguel Angel Mansira (2012-2018), it was aimed at building the so-called CHPULTEPEC Cultural Corridor, as a solution to mobility problems and an opportunity to plant 500 trees to make Chapolbeek Street “Green Zone”.

The project was canceled in 2015, after the majority of citizens who participated in a public consultation refused.

In the following administration, this section began to rehabilitate from 1.2 km, which ended in February 2020.

At that time, the capital government has strengthened the work as a symbolic intervention to restore the public space and urban sustainability.

The works included the construction of 75 gardeners to capture rain water and re -move with more than 101 thousand plants and 274 trees.

To date, a wide range of these plants, between rosemary, lavender, monster, claws, lilies, look dry, as can be verified joinery During a tour of the area. According to the neighbors and merchants in the region, the Green Zone has not received sufficient irrigation for months.

“Before that, the tubes have passed at night, but since November I have not seen it,” said nearly a nearby Cafitria employee.

Greta Alcantara, a specialist in urban landscape from the Independent National University of Mexico, explained that the situation is not only due to the lack of water, but to the problem of planning and maintenance.

He warned that the floor of the corridor is compressed, which prevents the correct absorption of water, while some species were planted in inappropriate conditions, such as shade plants exposed to the sun.

“It is clear that the irrigation system does not work as it should.

According to the specialist, many plants do not receive the treatment needed to survive.

“We see trees with cross cables, posts, and sticks sticking to other trees (…) In addition, there is a mixture of species; a groove next to monsters, the claws of the lion or plans that are the shade but in the sun and are exposed to them and today they are completely burned, like fern. It is a lack of planning,” he added.

Before lacking maintenance and the presence of pipes to water the green area of ​​the Shaboltebek corridor, some cleaning workers at the Cuuhtémoc office tried to water the plants in a sign, and the neighbors themselves made their best to keep the gardeners in front of them.

“But it will never be enough; it’s very dry, in two seconds the water was absorbed,” he said.

According to testimonies, the deterioration of plants is not modern. The drought problem has been dragged into the Chapolak Petic Corridor since 2022.

“The problem is already of the age of 2022, we see this area dry. Every six months of business employees and plant changes, but because there is no maintenance, it is dried again,” said Jose, Yasar Rodriguez Touvar, who lived in the area for 50 years.

A channel, also looks affected

As part of the rehabilitation of the Chapultetec Corridor, the restoration of the Chapultetec channel was carried out, with the removal of attached pollutants, water, metal stabilization, welding repair, recovery of paint, and rebuilding concrete.

However, this concrete structure appears to be affected, while the irrigation system is impractical, and the gatherings that were stored for water have become a refuge for people in street parking, as well as the seats that were placed five years ago.

“This problem occurs here in the canal pools and in the Seville metro area,” Rodriguez said.

Alcántara, founder Creative Lab G | He warned that abandoning maintenance and its lack of maintenance threatens the opposite of the expected benefits of more than 300,000 people traveling daily across the region.

He pointed out that, to reflect the damage, the urgent measure will be to revitalize the irrigation system and preserve the urban vegetation, especially in times of the water crisis.

“It is no longer just aesthetics, but environmental health,”

These media have contacted the Ministry of Works to learn about the measures that will be implemented in the corridor, without a response so far.