The use of innovation is recommended in the face of various social problems, giving rise to the creation of jobs in areas with poverty problems, among other alternatives.
There is the execution of planned strategies that dare to venture into urban problems considering only the metropolitan region within their plans.
There is also the traffic and environmental problem, which has reached a point where the circulation of automobiles has tripled, with a million cars driving through the main and secondary arteries of the capital, which causes accidents and urban and regional traffic jams.
Meanwhile, the city has not stopped growing anarchically, both in shape and in density: 110 inhab/ha and land use. Without security and seismic risk plans, with anarchic development, especially in residential areas, now blocked by security, which also represents major urban problems.
“The good development of the habitat of Guatemala City” should begin by accepting that the municipality of Guatemala no longer exists. Now what there is is a city-region, in which the government of Guatemala City does not have the capacity to master the problems it receives from that regional structure, if it does not take into account the collateral problems that exist in the periphery and the avalanche of population that every day goes in and out with transit, environmental, urban and regional problems.
With communication problems, whether personal or means of transport, an attempt has been made to improve with overpasses. What are overpasses? Overpass is the process of adapting a crossing of two or more transportation axes at different heights —slopes— so as not to interrupt the flow of traffic between other transit routes when they cross each other.
The so-called Metropolitan Commonwealth are Mixco, Amatitlán, Chuarrancho, San José del Golfo, San Pedro Ayampuc, San Miguel Petapa, Villa Nueva, Chinautla, Santa Catarina Pinula, Palencia, San Juan, San Raymundo, Fraijanes, Villa Canales, San Juan Sacatepéquez, approved by the respective assembly that gave life to this structure. This is where they should have tried to comprehensively solve the problems of the municipalities and that they still continue to live in municipal fiefdoms without leadership. Guatemala is traversed by countless violent expressions. To a very large extent, “violence” tends to be identified with “crime”. But reality is much more complex than that simplification. This identification is, at least, wrong, but the product of an interested manipulation. The powers that be, to a greater or lesser extent, intend to manage those development processes that would support a better standard of living, limit imitating migration as a means of family development, which has become a way of life by working in the US. , in which remittances have become an example.