Quadri Says DF Needs Private Investment The News
go to original April 30, 2012

New Alliance presidential candidate Gabriel Quadri

MEXICO CITY – Presidential candidate for the New Alliance (Panal) Gabriel Quadri warned that, “Mexico City is almost at the breaking point in terms of water, energy, environmental conservation and traffic, which requires a lot of private investment.”

Quadri said that private captial is necessary if the city intends to be competitive, at the Panal launch of Rosario Guerra’s campaign for mayor of Mexico City on Sunday.

“We don’t only need to invest in Reforma, but also in working class boroughs; (we need to) revitalize Iztapalapa, Tláhuac, Iztacalco; invest a lot more (money) in historic downtown and reclaim public spaces,” he said during the event in the former San Hipólito Convent.

Quadri said he was against decentralizing Mexico City, as Andrés Manuel López Obrador proposes, stating that the capital needs investment to convert it into one of the best cities in the world.

He said that the country is lacking jobs. Even though, he said, informal street vending provides work, it is not a good option because the sector is overrun by organized crime.

Jorge Gaviño Ambriz, Panal leader in Mexico City, said that the “Supervía Poniente” (Western Superhighway) will not solve traffic problems in the western part of the city.

He said that “a new system of roadways will be required from Reforma to Santa Fe, such as a public transportation tunnel.”

Gaviño Ambriz said that investments by public-private partnerships are needed to revitalize and reclaim water distribution networks, because water should be guaranteed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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