The mayor of Tonalá, Sergio Chávez, began his second consecutive term as head of the City Council and highlighted that he already has a complete plan to solve the garbage problem.
“You have to make a master plan. And show the legal provision of the nine metropolitan Councils for the legal approval that we migrate to a new metropolitan collection system, that the state Legislature that begins in November authorizes the Decentralized Public Organization. I have heard Governor Pablo Lemus that he is willing to invest 300 million pesos, because five more transfer stations need to be built.”
Of those stations in the metropolis, there are practically two: La Nogalera, in Guadalajara, which receives garbage from San Juan de Dios, and the soon-to-be-launched eastern transfer station. To complement, he suggested building another in San Pedro Tlaquepaque, one closer to the Center of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga and another in the north of Zapopan, to receive waste from the north and east.
He insisted on his bet that, with the Metropolitan Waste Management Agency, they will buy more collection trucks and the expansion of the Picachos landfill, although they acknowledged that one more is required.
Besides, It will seek the construction of Line 5 of the Light Train to reach the Tonalá Center to connect the four centers of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area, as well as the completion of the expansion of the Peribús with more stations that reach the Tonalá Center.
In terms of health, he emphasized the next conclusion of the Hospital Civil de Oriente to increase health coverage in the area.
On the other hand, Sergio Chávez urges a Metropolitan System of Civil Protection, Firefighters and Green Cross to improve the attention of health services and emergencies in the nine municipalities. He gave as an example the fires recorded in recent days in shopping centers, for which he recalled that Civil Protection elements from four municipalities and state and federal agencies came to put out the fires in support of Zapopan. “It is a disorganization because each municipality has its Cruz Verde units. We must create this system, like Mexico City has with the rescue squad, with medical services. They have it in New York, Madrid, Los Angeles… and that this system is in the hands of those who know how to move firefighters, paramedics, civil protection.”
The goals
- Completion of the garbage transfer plant in the Oriente.
- Tender for garbage collection trucks for the municipality.
- Promote the creation of the Metropolitan Waste Agency.
- Manage the construction of Line 5 of the Light Rail to Tonalá.
- Conclude the Peribús towards Tonalá.
- Create the Metropolitan System of Civil Protection and Firefighters.
Sergio Chavez. The municipal president of Tonalá will insist on promoting a line 5 that runs through the Tonalá geography. THE INFORMATOR. Navarrese
Plans to improve mobility with more mass transportation
The municipal president of Tonalá, Sergio Chávez, is clear about his goal for his third stage as councilor of the municipality: to improve mobility and connect more Tonaltecas with other parts of the city.
The first commitment that the councilor seeks is Claudia’s support SheinbaumPresident of Mexico, for the construction of a new light rail line that runs through Tonala.
“We are going through line 5 of the electric train or a massive system, which is a commitment of the current President Claudia Sheinbaum so that it can make a connection with line 3 that is in the new Bus Station on the Tlaquepaque side, connect with the Transportation Center. Tonalá and take it to the new Periférico, take the entire new Periférico, go through the CuTonalá until you arrive in front of the Guadalajara International Airport,” he said in an interview with THE INFORMATOR.
Chávez stated that They already have a conceptual draft that would benefit more than a million people who live in Tonalá as well as in the eastern part of the city such as Tlaquepaque, El Salto, a part of Juanacatlán and even Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, especially, those close to the Airport.
According to Sergio Chávez, the route of line 5 would go from the highway to Zapotlanejoyou would turn into Periférico Nuevo and get to the Guadalajara Airport; The mayor highlighted that, if this work and the expansion of Train line 3 towards Tesistán is achieved, the historic centers of Guadalajara, Zapopan, Tlaquepaque, Tonalá and even Tlajomulco de Zúñiga would be connected.
“It would be wonderful to connect from the Airport and extend line 3 to Tesistán. You are crossing the entire metropolis and would connect the four most important Historical Centers of the state with the Airport, it is also a tourist issue and gives greater equipment on the Tonalá side, even cheaper.”
In the next three years, Chávez hopes that the five Peribús stations that are pending will be completed so that the mass transportation system can reach the center of Tonalá.
The new peribus stations will soon come into operation. SPECIAL
Plans for more trucks and expansion of Picachos
Sergio Chávez insists that the creation of the new Metropolitan Waste Management Agency be authorized in order to address the garbage problem with metropolitan coordination.
The mayor suggested that the metropolitan agency should promote the construction of three new transfer plants in Tlajomulco, Tlaquepaque and Zapopan to complement and make more efficient the operation of the already existing La Nogalera plant in Guadalajara and the upcoming start-up of the East of Tonalá.
However, the mayor estimated that Around 280 garbage trucks are required with an investment of 1,200 million pesos to launch what was called the WHO of the garbage, as well as expanding the reception capacity of the Picachos landfill, located in the northern area of Zapopan.
“Not just collecting the garbage, taking it to the transfer station and then to Picachos, which is the only public landfill we have in the entire city, we have to look in two aspects: Expanding Picachos in Zapopan and expanding it costs us around 200 million pesos per cell, and each cell gives you availability every 6 months as they fill up.”
Chávez agreed with Verónica Delgadillo, municipal president of Guadalajara, with the need to promote the separation of garbage, thereby guaranteeing a decrease in waste generation: “Each human being generates between 500 and 600 grams of garbage every 24 hours, but Garbage is only 20 percent, everything else is recycling because if we don’t separate, there won’t be enough Picachos.”
With the metropolitan agency, the construction of another sanitary landfill in the metropolis could be analyzed: “We need to see where we build another landfill in the eastern part, but that it does not happen like in Tala, but if we have this agency, we can look for land and still what the law requires. This to be able to have Picachos in the north and another in the south-east.”
For this reason, Sergio Chávez urges that before the end of November, the proposal to create the metropolitan garbage agency be voted on in the municipal councils.
Eastern Civil Hospital. Work that benefits the Tonaltecas. SPECIAL
They will extend municipal health coverage
The mayor of Tonalá, Sergio Chávez, highlighted the improvement in health coverage that will occur in the coming months in the east of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area with the launch of the Oriente Civil Hospital after several years of construction.
“It is at 82 percent Hospital (Civil) of the East, another justice that is being given to those of us who live in the eastern area. A hospital that will have a capacity of almost 400 census beds, nine operating rooms where there will be people who will work 24 hours a day.”
The Tonalteca mayor highlighted the care capacity that the hospital that will be in charge of the OPD Civil Hospitals of Guadalajara will be able to provide once its operations begin:
“It depends on the OPD Civil Hospitals, it will be the first that will be a hospital-school, it will provide medical service to more than a million and a half people who also come from Michoacán, Colima, Zacatecas and who have to enter the hospital with their patients. “Guadalajara.”
Chávez mentioned that they will promote the construction of a medical complex for the Tonalteca population that has emergency services, a second-level hospital, a hemodialysis clinic, a clinic for the prevention of diabetes and hypertension, maternal and child care, and ophthalmology.
This complex would have an investment of 200 million pesos and It is expected to be completed in the coming months.
This is in addition to the construction of the El Rosario Green Cross which is already in operation, serving the inhabitants of the municipality and neighboring communities and which had the support of the three levels of government.
