The residents of Mácher have been demanding for quite some time the treatment that the town's road should have: a proper sidewalk, modern streetlights that provide safety for pedestrians, furniture in accordance with the needs of the citizens, attention to the vegetation, a properly marked, signalized pedestrian crossing at the main bus stop, where the church, the socio-cultural center, and a service station converge. In short, giving it a human touch in the face of the insecurity of the intense and constant traffic that the road endures (more than twenty thousand vehicles daily). Also, there is a perceived insensitivity in the construction of a roundabout at the height of the Los Olivos road, which avoids unnecessarily traveling an additional three kilometers every day for more than half a decade. It is simply about having the same services that other roads of similar characteristics and traffic volume have, for example, the LZ-1 as it passes through Tahíche (four roundabouts), and the road through San Bartolomé, which has five possibilities for left turns.
Red Eléctrica is building a substation with a high environmental impact on rustic land, previously a sandy area of high tomato and onion production, which will soon change the morphology of the towns of Mácher and La Asomada, in a place where paradoxically the sun and wind abound.
To complete the chapter of woes, the century-old rural post office of Mácher will soon cease to provide its services. The figure of the "rural postman" has played an endearing role in the places where these services of interest were recently located: Camino de La Calderina, or, Carretera General, are the last social points where these postal services were located. The current postman, who is now retiring, has been carrying out the activity for almost forty years, and his predecessor did so for almost the same amount of time, carrying it out on a donkey until the early eighties.
By Juan Cruz Sepúlveda
