The arrival of the cold and the specific climatic conditions of the winter season brought rigged, as every year, successive periods of closure of the international tunnel Cristo Redentor by the accumulation of ice, snow, and other weather problems that prevent normal traffic to and from Chile. This can be reversed by applying a method already used in Europe. The thousands of trucks are stranded in the mountains for the province represent a significant economic loss. On one hand, large quantities of goods that are not prepared to endure days of waiting in the car and end up lost. Also, if you have a border crossing in -enabled conditions for longer periods of time during the winter commercial traffic would increase, resulting in higher customs revenues. The reality is that the Cristo Redentor tunnel spends most of the winter closed. And the methods used to clear routes (bulldozers and salt) seem as anachronistic now. At least that’s what some experts say as the engineer and research scientist Argentine Juan José Cinalli. In Europe, some mountain tours have a heating system that keeps the ice-free pavement, he said. The scientist explained that the routes of the old world have pipes under the asphalt along which allow products to maintain a surface temperature higher than the freezing point route. One of the difficulties to adapt the system to our European routes has to do with those technologies are applied in location free from vibration, but our border crossing is located in an area of constant microearthquakes. However, it can be adapted clarified. Cinalli, which last year was recognized by the Chamber of Deputies for their contributions to the development generated in Argentina technologies, said that in our country the technical means and specialists able to develop methods to solve this kind of exist both difficulties. It is also cheaper to make these investments that generate economic revenue long term, he said. Approximately 500 trucks attempting to cross to Chile every day since we left our provincia.Nosotros projects that this government (by Celso Jaque) discarded to speed border traffic, said Carlos Daparo, official IDITS for project management cobista.El Mendoza logistics included, as well as improvements on Route 7 and the International Tunnel, the construction of logistics platforms across the province said. According to the former official said, these jobs had allowed the proceedings be conducted in less time, so even if the passage is not open all the time, reach into crossing all trucks.
