These are the works with which Mayor Claudia López seeks to eliminate the trancones in the north of Bogotá

Mayor Claudia López and Mobility Secretary Felipe Ramírez released the details of the North Road Plan, a mobility project aimed at decongesting traffic in this area of the Colombian capital. It seeks to improve the outings of the city, as well as the connections with some roads in Cundinamarca. The objective is to expand the entrances and exits of northern Bogotá from 12 to 24 lanes.

“We currently have contracted, financed and executed works that will duplicate, in the next five years, the mixed lanes on the northern edge of Bogotá region. They will go from 12 to 24 lanes,” said Mayor Claudia López at a press conference, where she announced the details of the works that, according to the studies, should have been carried out more than 50 years ago,

According to the president, the roads that will be intervened are the Norte Highway, from 245th to 80th Street; the Seventh Street, from 24th to 245th Street; Boyacá Avenue, from 170th Street to Avenida Guaimaral on the border with the municipality of Chía; Avenida Suba-Cota and Carrera 9.

The president stated that, “All these works are already financed with an investment of $4 billion, resources that are already insured, one part is provided by the Nation and another is provided by the District.” Mayor López also said that the Mayor's Office hopes to leave co-financed with the government of President Duque, the second line of the metro and 13th Street.

He added that, “We hope with the next government to finalize the river highway in Chia and the Northern Regiotram. That is the real solution. We will double in five years the number of lanes to the north; but that, in any case, will end up congested by cars. The solution is public transport, massive and clean: in the case of the northern border, the answer is the Regiotram.”

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According to the president, the renovation works are already being carried out on the entire northern highway, from 80th to 193rd Street. “We are doing repair, maintenance, lane widening and more pedestrian bridges to access TransMilenio stations. Those works are going to be done in 13 months.” In 2023, the adjustments will be made between 193 and 245 streets and these will be commissioned by the ANI and will be expanded to five lanes.

“This work begins in October 2023 and ends in 2028, with which the North Highway from where it starts to the border with Chia will be fully expanded,” said Bogotá Mayor Claudia López

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In the seventh race, works will be carried out from 24th street to 245th street, the first section will be carried out in 2022, while the section between 40th and 94th streets will be carried out in 2023 and finally in mid-2023 works will begin from 94th to 200th street. The stretch outside Bogotá from the 200 to Chia is already under construction. Claudia López assured that, “in the green corridor of the seventh race there will only be electric public transport”.

On Avenida Boyacá there will be an extension of lanes from 170th Street to 242nd Street (Guaimaral Avenue). The IDU will be responsible for carrying out these works between 170th and 183e streets. Work will begin in May 2022 and are expected to be completed by the end of next year. Once the work reaches 183e street, it will be loaned to the Lagos Torca project. “They are going to do 5 complex years, of shared mobility, 151 kilometers of new roads, 5 new roads already financed, 5 years of patience await us.”

The projects that are pending are that of Borde Norte Avenue, which starts at 170 and goes to the edge with Chía, once in the municipality it becomes the Troncal del Río. The other work is that of Regiotram del Norte, which has been developing feasibility studies.

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