Judging by what has been known to date, the idea of restricting the circulation of heavy vehicles during daylight hours has been studied for a long time.
Too long. So much so that it should be embarrassing to admit it.
Industrial, businessmen and guilds of transport cargo companies have publicly recognized it when responding to an editorial initiative by Listín Diario.
They know that the measure is necessary. They know that it works in countries that are richer and have more cargo to move than ours. And yet, nothing changes.
Because? Because there has been no political will. There never has been. And what’s worse: the authorities have preferred the simulation rather than confront the power groups that benefit from the chaos.
Since the measure that circumstances imperatively demand has not been taken so far, we must conclude that consensus is not reached because no one wants to put the interests of citizens—their right to live, to get home, to not waste hours in traffic jams—above the economic interests of a few.
That is not a lack of consensus: that is pure political cowardice. The hour of the dead does not wait for consensus
Protecting a business has been prioritized while blood continues to spill on the roads.
Traffic accidents are not statistics: they are deaths that the authorities have decided to accept as an acceptable cost. And that is morally unacceptable.
And meanwhile, transporters flout daily the rules that prohibit circulation on ring roads and avenues at certain hours.
Authority is conspicuous by its absence. Everything has been a screen, a smokescreen so that citizens believe that something is being done when in reality nothing is being done.
And period.
