by amapaspv | Dec 7, 2016 | News | Noticias, Street, Uncategorized
Para terminar con las nuevas huellas de cemento antes de Navidad, la calle Hortensias tendrá que permanecer CERRADA entre Loma Linda y la carretera 200, hasta el día Martes 13 de Diciembre.
Por favor use la vía alterna por la calle Púlpito.
Ayer, aceleramos las cosas al rentar 2 retroexcavadoras, -una que rompa y abra el espacio para la segunda huella de cemento y la otra para recoger y limpiar las piedras y pedazos de concreto para ayudar a preparar el espacio donde se vertebra el cemento.
Las dos máquinas –trabajando lado a lado con el personal de Obras Publicas- hicieron en un día lo que hubiera tomado a los trabajadores y la compresora con martillo neumático varias semanas.
A partir del día de hoy, estamos rentando un volteo y retroexcavadora que limpie el espacio y se lleve el escombro.
En la Carrera a las vacaciones de Navidad, el personal de Obras Publicas ha estado trabajando de acuerdo a sus posibilidades, por lo que la Asoc. de Vecinos de Amapas A.C. ha hecho todo lo posible para apoyarlos y lograr sacar el trabajo a tiempo. Esto rentando las retroexcavadoras, los volteos, que además de todo han reducido el ruido y las molestias para nuestros miembros y vecinos.
El plan de trabajo esperado para el resto de la semana.
Plan sujeto a cambios por el ayuntamiento y el clima cambiante (lluvia)
Hoy, Miércoles 7 de Diciembre: limpieza y preparación para la nueva huella de cemento a mano.
Jueves, 8 de diciembre: 2 trompos de cemento, rallado de huellas y terminación. Incluyendo limpieza y forma
Viernes, 9 de Diciembre: otros 2 trompos de cemento, rallado de huellas y terminación, incluyendo limpieza y forma
Sábado, 10 de Diciembre: Último tramo de Cemento y terminado.
El Cemento fresco que estaremos vertiendo esa semana necesita fraguarse, así que no se puede usar, no importa que tan sólido se vea, -por al menos 3 días más. Por favor ayúdennos respetando el paso –y todo nuestro trabajo duro- durante el tiempo de fraguado.
Esta semana, Hortensias estará totalmente bloqueado con los trompos de cemento. Además del volteo y la retroexcavadora llevándose el escombro.
Nuestra meta es completar las huellas el Sábado para así reabrir al tráfico el Miércoles 14 de Diciembre para el resto de las festividades navideñas.
Como probablemente lo sepan, el ayuntamiento cierra por vacaciones las dos últimas semanas del año, y si algo como parte del pavimentado no quede terminado antes del 14 de Diciembre, tendremos que esperar a terminarlo para después de año Nuevo.
Gracias como siempre por su paciencia –algunos inconvenientes son necesarios y puede ser molesto por un corto tiempo pero estamos trabajando en un beneficio a largo plazo para todos nosotros.
by amapaspv | Dec 1, 2016 | Financial, News | Noticias, Street
Calle Hortensias was a mess. Sometimes described as ‘a collection of potholes held together by a bunch of cobblestones,’ the steep and narrow street leading up from Highway 200 was a rough ride, even on the best of days.
The big gas and water trucks that regularly trundled up the hill just made things worse, their weight taking its toll, their heavy tires cracking the cement and spitting out loose cobbles.
And once one cobble came loose, more quickly followed, quickly creating craters in the road – hard to avoid, especially with oncoming traffic.
The neighborhood association’s Pothole Patrol spent thousands of pesos every year in patching and repairs, but it was a losing ‘uphill battle.’
The street continued to crumble. Something had to be done.
But Puerto Vallarta has many colonias with bigger problems than Amapas, and many streets in more desperate need of repair.
What to do? How long would we have to wait for help?
So the Amapas Neighborhood Association came up with a plan.
We got in touch with City Hall – the Department of Public Works. Their engineers, accompanied by ANA representatives, surveyed the street and determined that installing two grooved cement tracks in the existing cobblestone pavement would be the most practical and affordable solution to Hortensias’ continued unraveling. Then they worked out a budget: labor, equipment, materials.
Fortunately ANA had developed an informal partnership with Obras Publicas: On select public works projects, they would provide manpower and machinery, and ANA (and sometimes our most affected neighbors) would pay for construction materials. It usually worked out to a 50-50 split, producing a repaired bridge, an improved street, or renewed highway lighting that would never have happened without our public-private partnership.
So we had a tested and successful informal partnership with Obras Publicas and a ‘cost-sharing’ forumula in place. But repaving lower Hortensias would be the most ambitious project ANA – or any Vallarta neighborhood association – had ever attempted.
And now we needed money – lots of it.
Based on the City budget, we figured that we needed at least $200,000 pesos to make this project go.
No way the ANA treasury could finance such a big effort while ‘holding the line’ on annual dues.
But asking neighbors to who didn’t depend on Hortensias – people who lived on Los Pinos, or on the other side of the highway, for example – to chip in on the Hortensias Repaving Project didn’t seem fair, either.
In March, the ANA Board sent out emails to all our individual members and Full Member Buildings – only on Gardenias and Hortensias (as far as the Selvamar bridge), explaining our plan and asking for voluntary contributions.
We promised that if we didn’t receive at least $200,000 pesos in contributions, all money would be cheerfully refunded.
ANA was impressed and relieved by our Hortensias and Gardenias neighbors’ response. By the end of April, we had received what we knew we would need…and a little more, which gave us a welcome ‘cushion’ in case we encountered unanticipated problems during the repaving project.
Hoping we could get the repaving accomplished before the summer rains, ANA wrote to Mayor Davalos and Obras Publicas, officially informing them that we had the needed funds in hand, and were ready to go forward with the project as soon as they were.
What happened next? Stay tuned for Chapter 2 in our continuing saga.
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