He Santiago Metropolitan Park It is the largest green lung in the capital, and today its partial reopening was announced this Wednesday, August 19 at 10 in the morning.
This responds to a pilot plan prepared by the Minvu and Parquemet to allow controlled access for visitors from the communes that are in the transition phase, such as Vitacura and Providencia. The accesses enabled for this first stage of gradual reopening will be those of the Pyramid and Pedro de Valdivia Norte.
On the occasion, Housing Minister Felipe Ward pointed out that “the park will be open from Monday to Friday from 10 in the morning to 6 in the afternoon. We have installed, thanks to the park team, signage in all public access places so that people stay informed. You know – you saw us enter – that we have this high-tech system that allows you to enter through the telephone or with the help of the entrance staff and, in this way, keep the count of people who are entering and maintain the capacity. The capacity of a normal day in the park is 15 thousand people and we have cut it in half to take care of people’s lives and health ”.
The wait is over! The minister @FelipeWard, together with the mayors of Providencia and Vitacura, @evelynmatthei and @TroncoTorrealba, in addition to our director @m_a_n_d_r_a_d_e, presented the first stage of the plan to reopen #Parquemet, which begins this Wednesday 19. pic.twitter.com/RVd5DwowJd
– Metropolitan Park (@parquemetminvu) August 17, 2020
For his part, director of Parquemet, Martín Andrade, reported that “only pedestrians will be allowed to enter. We do not want accidents, we do not want to recharge the Emergency Centers of any of the clinics, and therefore, we do not want to have any type of problems and accidents, therefore, only pedestrians can access. The second is that we have four entrances, and two of them are going to be closed ”.
The mayor of Providencia, Evelyn Matthei, pointed out that “we need people to start enjoying themselves a little more, to start going out, but with absolute awareness that the virus continues to turn and that any of us can get sick, and that the The disease has a fatality rate, but, in addition, in people who manage to pass it, in many of them it leaves very serious consequences. We cannot go back, so we will also be monitoring ”.
For our reopening, we are working together with # LiraArtePublic in different interventions by prominent national artists, to fill your return to Parquemet with color and nature. See a preview of the work that the muralist Nelson Rivas is preparing, Cekis. pic.twitter.com/LQQq8g32n3
– Metropolitan Park (@parquemetminvu) August 17, 2020
The authority of Vitacura, Raúl Torrealba, stressed the great work that the park has done to welcome visitors safely and affirmed that “now it is our responsibility to abide by the rules and behave responsibly, respecting the capacity and distances, and thus enjoy the largest green lung in Santiago ”.
To avoid crowds, the National Zoo, the gardens, the cable car and the funicular will remain closed. Also the swimming pools, the information, complaints and suggestions offices and the water fountains. In addition, no religious activities will take place in the Virgen sector.
Sanitary measures
- Use of a mandatory mask for all users and workers.
- There will be health services available to visitors.
- Signage: There will be 75 billboards with information, 20 stickers for furniture with distance and 5 for children’s games.
- When visitors arrive they will see a guide with the main recommendations.
- Temperature control with “Healthy Up” technological system. At the entrance there will be the device that allows remote and non-contact temperature measurement.
- Green identifiers were painted on the ground, separated by 1.5 meters, to ensure that people are always more than one meter away at least, especially in access and stay areas, with a maximum of ten people in the same sector.
- Demarcations at strategic points (such as Plaza México, Tupahue sector) and distance of 5 meters in the areas of displacement, between athletes running or walking fast.
- Speakers during the visit that will give announcements so that users respect the rules and remember the park hours.
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