Residents in the Gazcue area near the Mahatma Gandhi and Juan Sánchez Ramírez streets closed off that intersection to traffic and demanded that the authorities prohibit the transport of minibuses in the area. Forty families living in the area said through a spokesperson that the reckless driving of the public transport minibuses has been the direct cause for the death of 19 persons in the above-mentioned intersection. They suggested that the street become one-way, in the south-north direction. They also called for the installation of an intermittent yellow light that would caution drivers of the dangers at that intersection. The director of the Metropolitan Transport Authority, Hamlet Hermann, and Colonel Pedro de Jesús Candelier, under director, ordered that two policemen be permanently assigned to the corner. They agreed to meet with Mayor Rafael Suberví to find a solution to the dangerous intersection.
