São Paulo, with delays, inaugurates new cable-stayed bridge today.
Congressman Paulo Maluf (PP-SP) was present this morning at the inauguration of the project, which bears the name of Orestes Quércia and cost R$ 85 million.
After almost ten months of delay, the cable-stayed bridge on the Tietê River Marginal Highway in São Paulo will be inaugurated today. The project cost R$ 85 million and is the last one needed to complete the so-called "New Marginal" complex. The new bridge will connect Avenida do Estado to the central lane of the Tietê River Marginal Highway (towards the Castelo Branco Highway), next to Anhembi. The bridge is cable-stayed (using cables, the same model used on the Pinheiros River Marginal Highway) and is 660 meters long, with an expected traffic of 20 vehicles per day.
Initially, it will be inaugurated incomplete, without a connection to the Bom Retiro neighborhood in the central region, which was planned in the executive project. This access ramp has no date to be built, as there are still property expropriations for the work, according to Desenvolvimento Rodoviário SA (Dersa) - the company responsible for the project.
Governor Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB) published a decree in the State Official Gazette naming the bridge after Governor Orestes Quércia – in honor of the politician who died last year. Quércia was an adversary and rival of former governor Mário Covas, Alckmin's political mentor.