Javier Milei's government announced this Monday the definitive dissolution of the Dirección Nacional de Vialidad (DNV), as part of a deep State restructuring aimed at reducing public spending, eliminating duplications, and professionalizing the management of road infrastructure in Argentina.
The measure transfers Vialidad's functions to the Ministry of Economy and to a new Agency for the Control of Concessions and Public Transport Services, which will be responsible for planning, executing, and overseeing road concessions.
Milei's government's decision is due to the fact that the DNV had become an oversized, inefficient, and costly agency, with overlapping functions and a structure that no longer met the country's current needs. With this reform, Argentines will save 87.9 million dollars annually.
According to official data, the Dirección Nacional de Vialidad had 5,184 employees, of whom 67% performed administrative tasks and only 33% operational ones. This disproportion in the distribution of human resources contrasted with an increasingly decentralized road scenario: the national network was reduced from 50,000 to 40,000 km, while provincial networks grew to more than 200,000 km.
