The Buenos Aires Legislature into law a proposal for a bridge linking the shantytowns and Constitution bears the name of Jorge Luis Borges in homage to Argentine writer who died one 14 of June, make 33 years, in Switzerland.

The initiative was turned to the enclosure by the deputies of the Committee on Culture and will be discussed at the next ordinary session, around the vehicle bridge metal structure constituting the extension of the street Ituzaingó, between Guanahaní and Paracas.

According holds the legislative initiative, Borges was “Buenos Aires passionate about and a fan of this particular bridge, I used to move often just to observe the movement of trains and station Constitution, also, It was a source of inspiration for one of his poems”.

Borges's poem named “Mateo XXV, 30” and begins: “The first bridge Constitution and my feet, heat station weaving iron labyrinths”.

The bridge structure was manufactured in Liverpool, England, maintains a good condition and inside you can still see the old cobblestones placed in a semicircle, plus a tramline, a means of transport that stopped working in the City of Buenos Aires at the beginning of the decade 60.