Overview
- The Bariloche federal judgment is now final, obliging immediate works charged to the 2024 budget on the deteriorated RN40 stretch.
- Ordered tasks include fixing potholes, cracks, rutting and shoulder drop-offs, plus restoring horizontal markings and installing vertical signage in critical zones.
- Within 90 days, Vialidad must submit a full survey of critical points, a detailed repair schedule, a rockfall risk report and an assessment of potential load-control posts.
- Within 120 days, the agency must deliver an integrated maintenance plan to sustain safety after the urgent repairs are completed.
- The case was advanced by Río Negro’s Fiscalía de Estado and Governor Alberto Weretilneck; a related RN151 order remains stalled by a national appeal, while a decree to dissolve Vialidad is under a six-month judicial suspension.