Tuesday August 28, 2007
He went to the investigating committee of the Chamber of Deputies, which now attends Sergio Espejo:
Estévez assumed "political responsibility" in Transantiago and exempts former President Lagos
HERNAN
TANKS, RODRIGO CERDA
After pointing to authorities and private infrastructure acknowledged shortcomings, shortcomings in contracts, saying the former president gave the directions only.
HERNÁN TANKS AND RODRIGO CERDA
Former Minister of Public Works and Transport Jaime Estévez (PS) release all political responsibility to the former President Ricardo Lagos for the decisions related to Transantiago were taken between January 2005 and March 2006.
Former Secretary of State argued that the political responsibility for what was done and what is left to do was to him as minister of state sector, and was not in the area of \u200b\u200bformer President Lagos to worry about details, but to make a strategic orientation. Jaime Estévez
attended yesterday for three hours at the commission investigating the House of Representatives and represents the highest authority that recognizes its responsibility among the dozens of servants who have attended to this group.
The parliamentary monitoring body will receive today the former minister Sergio Espejo, who asked President Bachelet the waiver by the mistakes of Transantiago, and whom the Minister Belisario Velasco suspected responsible for the questioning of two weeks ago. While
Jaime Estevez said yesterday to the operating companies and technology provider as the main culprits for the failure of the new transport system "for failing to meet key aspects of contracts," the former minister made a "mea culpa" and acknowledged authorities responsible for the backwardness of infrastructure, difficulties in the delivery of information, gaps in the mesh of the routes and did not foresee a law to intervene in companies that do not fulfill their contractual commitments, which he considered his biggest mistake.
Estevez said that under his leadership the ministry addressed the issue of Transantiago a team effort involving professionals, officials and advisers, but he was ultimately responsible as minister.
said that the responsibility of former President Lagos is appointing me to me. If it was wrong, that is their political responsibility, but not the daily run of things, it was my responsibility. "
In response to Mr Patricio Melero (UDI), who accused the commission to be shielding to Lagos, the former minister said that "if I could shield him would gladly, but it is not necessary."
regard to the frequency with which informed the President on the progress of Transantiago, Estevez said not remember his schedule. At the same time, denied that Lagos had been aware of the contracts signed with operators and their benefits, "because that is not an area the President, but the ministry." Melero
Estevez said "has been very loyal to former President Ricardo Lagos, but not citizenship. Speaks well of his unconditional with Lagos, but speaks against the enormous harm he has caused to people and collaboration former minister should have given the commission to find the real responsibilities. " The
chairman of the investigating committee, Patricio Hales (PPD), shared appreciation Estévez, in the sense that the leaders hardly enter the details of the issues the ministers and delegates appreciated it has assumed responsibility.
Karla Rubilar The deputy stated that if the President acknowledged errors and apologized for the Transantiago, "former President Lagos can not remain silent on this matter and his ministers can not come to shield him."
detailed technical problems
Minister Jaime Estévez The former minister acknowledged that there are several technical problems have prevented that currently operate as Transantiago expected.
recognized not only problems of infrastructure, poor design of the mesh of routes, bad corporate behavior in the streets, and failure to timely regulated by law the possibility of intervening companies do not comply with the substance of their contracts, but that respect Transantiago Financial Administrator (AFT) said that his time was impossible to think that his contract would not meet. "When the tender for the AFT's win all four major banks, coupled with the most important technology company in Chile (probe), it was impossible to think that they were not functioning well," he said.
On this point noted that the AFT prequalified technically, why not put any problem in the bidding.
addition, Estevez acknowledged that the State will need to improve their management, and that can only serve a certain number of works.
"When they are doubled or tripled unfortunately there is good management to take forward all projects. That I think is what happened here with the Transantiago in several areas in which the State did not have the necessary speed to be required" .
The former minister said that when he gave the job to his successor, Sergio Espejo, he detailed the progress, gaps and major challenges to the Transantiago. "Clearly I gave a problem to the former Minister mirror and I think he tried his best in Transantiago. I have a very good concept of Sergio Espejo," he said.
The assigned blame to other authorities before the commission
GERMÁN BELT
July 10
Whoever transport system coordinator said that the primary responsibility for the problems of Transantiago was former Minister Javier Etcheberry.
"He made many changes to the original design of transport plan for Santiago. Also supported the pay-per bus-km and not the payment per passenger (PPT), which is what operates today. Also, revalidated the former leaders of the union challenged the yellow buses, whom they had applied the Homeland Security Act of State by a call to stop, to allow them to be part of the tender for the new plan. "
ETCHEBERRY
6, JAVIER
August
The former minister said that there was lack of capacity in public administration.
"There was a lack of management, inadequate rule and lack of resources. So I think it's important that we learn from past mistakes and to correct and establish accountability. Former President Ricardo Lagos participated in major decisions, as were meetings every month at La Moneda, where the Committee of Ministers he reported on progress. While Lagos was not in the details and had faith in his ministers, led the bidding process and that the state was not.
FERNANDEZ AND CEA
August 11 were those who designed the mesh of routes for the new transport plan. They said they were treated to "unfit" to provide early warning to the authorities of Transport of the time of the need to have five and six thousand 600 thousand 400 buses to jump-start the system.
"We said the lower limit of machines operating in field 4525 could not lose. Given this recommendation, the coordinator of Transantiago, Fernando Promis, we inept tried because I thought that our figures were exaggerated. "
DANILO NUÑEZ
August 14
The current Secretary of Transportation, Danilo Nunez said he was" tricked "by the operators of buses on 10 February, the day the departure of the new transport system, when he named 10-F.
"Operators took the entire fleet committed by contract since the beginning of the plan. Buses should be, above the five thousand, were never in the streets, and so the system started with the problems we are currently living. In addition, the technological system was not ready 10-F, which also caused problems.
FERNANDO BUSTAMANTE
July 30 Former president of the Metro was invited in his capacity as former member of the Committee of Transantiago.
"This plan should not have started without the existence of at least eight stations intermodal without a trial run and without control of evasion. In addition, the system works blindly, since private parties do not have complied with the technology offered.
"I never had a history of where Metro's report warned the government of the difficulties of implementing the system to have the February 10, 2007. By that time I did several months I had dropped. "
Mirror:
than expected
One of the most anticipated testimony is to be delivered today at Congressional former Transport Minister Sergio Espejo. The reason is that it was he who played for the launch of Transantiago on 10 February, following which President Bachelet decided to call for his resignation because of the crisis triggered by the heavy deployment errors. At the heart of the questions will know what history made him confident that the plan would work as it was structured at that time. When recently questioned in the Chamber of Deputies, the interior minister said mirror was primarily responsible for the transport system parts badly. Velasco said Sunday Mirror said that before the commission investigating "me no more complicated in all, because I imagine that will tell the truth and I do not really difficult." SHIELD
"If I could shield him (Lagos) I would gladly, but it is not necessary," said Jaime Estevez.
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