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This Monday (11), the first day of the current mega-car, the city of São Paulo had no significant congestion.
The new, broader and more restrictive rotation is the new attempt by Covas management (PSDB) to increase the city’s rates of social isolation, today at the epicenter of the new coronavirus pandemic.
According to CET (Traffic Engineering Company), the measure had an impact on the reduction of vehicles on the roads, with a record of only 1 km of congestion and slow 4 km around 8 a.m.
In the other time bands there were no congestions.
A very different situation, says the CET, last Monday (4), which accumulated 11 km of car lines and 21 km slow between 8 am and 9 am.
But Edson Caram, Secretary of Mobility and Transport for the management of Covas (PSDB), sees that the reduction in the volume of vehicles in circulation in the city has not yet reached the ideal.
“At first, you can see that there is a decrease in the volume of cars circulating in the city of São Paulo. It is not yet expected, the population is still moving beyond what we want,” he said in an interview with TV Globo. . .
A Sheet He passed through various points of the city, such as Avenida Alcântara Machado, in Tatuapé (eastern area) and saw many cars in circulation in the early hours of Monday afternoon.
The megarodízio is valid for all days of the week, including Saturdays and Sundays, 24 hours a day, and restrictions on the movement of vehicles cover the entire city, not just the expanded center as in the previous rule.
The only exception will occur on the 31st, a Sunday, when the rotation will not apply. On even days, vehicles with the end of the even plates (0, 2, 4, 6 and 8) can drive.
On odd days, like Monday, vehicles with odd plates end (1, 3, 5, 7, and 9). According to the city council, the new rotation system increases the restriction to the circulation of automobiles from 20% to 50%, according to the city council.
If, on the streets, the indices indicate a drop in the circulation of automobiles, the public transport system received a significant portion of passengers, who filled the trains at Metrô and CPTM, in addition to buses.
In the Metro, the number of passengers increased by 11%, on the 5-lilas line; 12% on lines 1-blue, 2-green and 3-red, and 14% on line 4-yellow. At CPTM, the increase in transportation demand was 15%.
The indices are preliminary and correspond to some hours of the maximum range of this Monday morning, between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m., according to the Doria Metropolitan Transportation Secretariat (PSDB).
A Sheet He contacted SPTrans to find out if there was an increase in passenger volume on public buses this Monday, but the company said the data will only be available on Tuesday (12).
The city placed 1,000 more buses on the streets of the capital and used 489 of the 600 vehicles available in the pockets, located at strategic points in the city, to serve regions that needed reinforcement.
Outside of the new rotation, private vehicles of public security officials, funeral service employees, press professionals, and prosecutors, as well as health and press professionals, among others.
On its first day of implementation, the megarrodízio stopped in court. According to Rogério Gentile, columnist for Sheet, the São Paulo Commercial Association filed a court order request to suspend the measure.
The entity considers that the new restriction on the movement of vehicles is abusive and detrimental to thousands of companies that try to survive, using creativity, “through home deliveries (own or subcontracted deliveries) or through a consumer-driven car ( Drive through ) “.
The city did not speak in the process.
STREET LOCK
Before the new rotation, the administration of Mayor Bruno Covas (PSDB) tried to keep Paulistano at home by blocking roads in the city.
The blockages had the opposite effect, with congestion, including ambulances.
On the 4th of this month, the interdictions caused 11 km of congestion in the time range between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m., according to CET.
With the problems created in traffic and insufficient to reduce the levels of social isolation against the new coronavirus, the blockade of streets and avenues was suspended.
Collaborate Alfredo Henrique
