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Public escalators at Colombia
posted on: Dec 27 2011 8:51 by RDugey. Viewed 24 times.
Some amazing and modern escalators outdoors were inaugurated yesterday Monday in this city, the second of the country, whose Mayor Alonso Salazar, assured that they are the first of its kind in the world.
Official said she had no references that a work of this magnitude has been constructed in some other country. He noted that authorities in Rio of Janeiro, Brazil, will soon come to Medellín "to look at this system of stairs to apply beyond the favelas".
The inauguration of the escalators was in the midst of a sort of celebration by the inhabitants of the Comuna 13, with a population of 12,000 people, 250 kilometers Northwest of Bogota.
People looked happy and that more climbed to the stairs were children and elderly.
"Wonderful, a dream come true." "I was one of the first who premiered", said Olga Holguín, ama House. excited voice,
The escalators u000ayou follow the idea of the mechanical scales of supermarkets or stores, for example. But as a megaobra the stairs of the Comuna 13 have an extension of 384 metres, divided into six sections.
César Hernández, Manager of integrated projects, the Mayor of Medellín, explained that the inhabitants of the place took 35 minutes to upload to walk the old stairs of cement and stone.
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