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Incidents in Lugano after four days without electricity: they cut the highway and clashed with the Police

2023-02-15T14:05:35.733Z


The problem affects neighborhoods of buildings in Villa Lugano and reaches Mataderos. The highway was interrupted for six hours.


For the third day in a row, the

Dellepiane highway woke up deserted this Wednesday.

Those responsible were

no more than ten residents

representing hundreds of other Villa Lugano and Mataderos that four days ago had

intermittent or total power cuts. 

After six hours, the picket was released, but after a while there were incidents with protesters who threw stones at the Police, when the troops tried to stop a new protest on the central route and the collector that goes to the center.

The problems do not end there.

Circulating is also complicated by the alternative roads to Dellepiane, that is, the north and south collectors and the internal streets of the Copello, Nágera and Samoré neighborhoods, complexes of apartment buildings on one side and the other of the

highway

.

It is that other neighbors who block the streets ask motorists for ID to certify that they live there to let them pass.

Otherwise, they have to

face the traffic jams.

"We have had

intermittent cuts for three days.

They cut for two or three hours and then it comes back. But after a while we ran out of light again. We have been

like this since Sunday.

But now everything has gotten worse: yesterday they cut at 11:30 and we still have no service, " Gabriela, a neighbor of the Nágera neighborhood,

tells

Clarín

that she is facing complications along with her three children.

One of the headquarters of the National Technological University (UTN) works in the area, which had to suspend summer courses, classes and activities.

And the situation of merchants who depend on electricity to keep their merchandise refrigerated and not have to throw it away is also complicated.

The Dellepiane highway was closed for six hours by no more than ten people protesting power outages.

Photo: Andres D'Elia

"You call and a little machine answers you"

, several of the neighbors agree, and add: "Then they make you send an SMS and the same thing happens, there is no answer. After a while you get an email saying that there is an electrical

incident

and that they will restore it shortly ".

This Wednesday, after

six hours of interrupted traffic

, around 10 o'clock and after an operation by the City Police, the cut was released and traffic returned to circulate on the highway that connects the Ezeiza airport with the center of the city. City.

"On top of that we are without electricity and we have to go up and down stairs, every time the highway is cut the buses

deviate and nobody knows where to go to catch them

. It is one more problem and it makes us all arrive late for work," he adds Gabriela.

The number of residents without electricity supply is large in the area and reaches some areas of

Mataderos and the Piedrabuena neighborhood

, further away from the highway.

In all cases, the complaints and difficulties due to the lack of service on extremely hot days are repeated. 

From Edesur, the company that provides the service in the area, they told Clarín

that

company operators are working to solve the problem this Wednesday.

On the Enre page, which reports the status of the service in real time, this Wednesday at 10 there were 14,155 users without supply.

Lugano and Villa Soldati are among the affected neighborhoods. 

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Source: clarin

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