Paseo del Bajo

Paseo del Bajo
Paseo del Bajo
Route information
	Maintained by AUSA
Length	7.1 km (4.4 mi)
Existed	May 2019–present
Major junctions
North end	AU Arturo Illia
	Retiro bus station, Av. Córdoba, ; Av. Corrientes,Av. Belgrano,; Av. Independencia, AU 25 de Mayo
South end	to La Plata (south)
Location
Major cities	Buenos Aires
Towns	Recoleta, Retiro, Puerto Madero, San Nicolás, Monserrat, San Telmo
Highway system
	Highways in Argentina;

Paseo del Bajo, officially named Brigadier General Juan Manuel de Rosas,^[1] is a highway in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It joins the 25 de Mayo, Arturo Illia and Buenos Aires-La Plata highways. It has a length of 7.1 km (4 mi) with two lanes on each direction.^[2]

It runs between Alicia M. de Justo, Ingeniero Huergo, Eduardo Madero, Antártida Argentina, and Ramón Castillo Avenues, through the barrios of Recoleta, Retiro, Puerto Madero, San Nicolás, Monserrat, San Telmo within the city of Buenos Aires. The freeway lanes are truck and bus only.^[2]

This highway is operated by "Autopistas Urbanas S.A." (AUSA), a limited company that builts and operates highways within the city of Buenos Aires. Its main shareholder is the Government of the City.^[3]

Overview[]

The freeway consists of four lanes, and is for trucks and long-distance buses exclusively, with eight lanes on parallel streets for light vehicles (four on each side, northbound and southbound).^[2] It was inaugurated on May 27, 2019.^[4]

At north, Paseo del Bajo starts in Arturo Illia Highway, then running along Ramón S. Castillo Avenue near the port of Buenos Aires. It runs along Antártida Argentina, and Eduardo Madero / Alicia M. de Justo Avenues, with connections with Retiro bus and railway stations. The highway ends at south of the city, connecting to 25 de Mayo (at west) and Buenos Aires–La Plata Highways (at south). In Puerto Madero and San Telmo, Paseo del Bajo has level crossings with Córdoba, Viamonte, Lavalle, Corrientes, Juan D. Perón, Moreno, Belgrano, Independencia, and Estados Unidos.^[2]

An average of 134,000 vehicles runs on Paseo del Bajo per day. It includes 15,326 trucks, 28,245 buses and 91,070 light vehicles.^[5]

Paseo del Bajo included a park, named "Parque del Bajo", located between Belgrano and Corrientes avenues (north-south) and Paseo Colón and Huergo avenues (west-east), with an extension of 102,000 m2.^[6]

Controversy[]

Some allegations of corruptions were reported, accusing Chief of Government Horacio Rodriguez Larreta to favour a company owned by a cousin of Mauricio Macri (then President of Argentina), granting it concession for the works. The General Audit of Buenos Aires denounced that the process was irregular and corrupt in favour of IECSA, the company owned by Angelo Calcaterra, cousin of Macri, for AR$ 3 million.^[7]^[8]

The Audit reported surchargers of up to 513%.^[9] Nevertheless, Federal Judge Claudio Bonadío closed the case, acquitting Rodríguez Larreta and Guillermo Dietrich (Ministry of Transport) of all charges.^[8]

A minority of the funding was loaned from the CAF – Development Bank of Latin America.^[8]

Major intersections[]

District (CABA)	km	mi	Road / street	Notes
Retiro	2	1.24	Retiro bus station	Parking entrance
Retiro	2.1	1.30	Av. de los Inmigrantes
San Nicolás	2.4	1.49	Av. Córdoba (west) – Cecilia Grierson (east)
	3.5	2.14	Viamonte
	3.8	2.36	Lavalle
	3.9	2.42	Av. Corrientes
	4.2	2.60	Tte. Gral. Juan D. Perón
Monserrat	4.8	2.98	Moreno
Monserrat	4.9	3.04	Av. Belgrano (west) – Azucena Villaflor (east)
San Telmo	5.5	3.41	Av. Independencia
	5.6	3.47	Estados Unidos
	6	3.72	AU 25 de Mayo to AU. Perito Moreno (northwest) and Av. Dellepiane (west)	Both roads finishes in Avenida General Paz, becoming other highways