City of Niterói has a ban on the entry of taxis from other cities and a reduction of 30% for intercity buses at the João Goulart Terminal among the blocking measures
This Saturday the 4th, the municipality of Niterói in Rio de Janeiro will begin a series of measures to block access in the city. The objective is to reduce the movement of people to help reduce the spread of Covid-19.
There will be 28 blocked points, the main ones being in neighboring cities, São Gonçalo and Maricá. The measures will be valid until April 18th.
The city of Niterói has 65 confirmed cases of coronavirus. Therefore, the city council decided to take the necessary precautions in order to further isolate the city and reduce the possibility of contagion. One of these measures is the ban on taxis from other cities entering the municipality and the reduction of 30% in the number of intercity bus fleets at the João Goulart Terminal.
“Traffic will be completely blocked on 21 streets and side roads in the city that connect with Maricá and São Gonçalo. At this first moment, vehicle entry control will be carried out at the seven possible points of access to Niterói, and taxis from other cities will be instructed to return from that point, as they will no longer be able to enter the city from Saturday onwards”, said Renato Barandier , municipal secretary of Urbanism and Mobility.
Measure for social isolation
Rodrigo Neves, mayor of Niterói, reaffirmed that the measure is essential to maintain social isolation.
“It will be two critical weeks for the spread of the coronavirus. We need to reduce the number of people entering the city since Niterói is the second city in Brazil with the highest daily circulation, with approximately 250 thousand people who do not live here”, highlights Mayor Rodrigo Neves. “With this first stage of the plan, we will check the coronavirus expansion curve in Niterói and neighboring cities to eventually adopt the other measures proposed in the Plan”.
Blocking points
– In the Oceânica Region, the passage of vehicles with checks will be on Avenida Central. The Itaipuaçu road will be closed. In Pendotiba, there will be 7 blocking points, 6 of them permanent. The passage of vehicles will only be possible through Estrada Caetano Monteiro. On RJ-104, the checkpoint will be next to the Santa Bárbara interchange. In the north zone there will be 12 blocking points, two where the passage will be controlled and 10 with total closure. The passage of vehicles through this region will only be possible via the Barreto and Dr. March viaduct. The streets Dr. Câmara Coutinho, João Batista, Sá Pinto and Travessa Loureiro Cintra will be blocked. The 2 entrances to Venda da Cruz, Rua da Cruz and Ruas Capitão Geraldo de Oliveira, Cel. Amarantes and Major Goudin will be closed.
In the Center region, there will be six blocking points, two of them with checking by municipal guards and four with total blocking. In this region there will be a checkpoint on Avenida Feliciano Sodré, next to Praça Renascença, and on the descent loop from the Rio-Niterói Bridge to Alameda São Boaventura. It will also not be possible to access Avenida Jansem de Melo for those coming from the Bridge, the access ramp on the way down will remain blocked.
