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08-01-2008, 05:30 PM
Public Works Minister Victor Rua Diaz said that the government will not allow Concesionaria Dominicana de Autopistas y Carreteras (Codacsa) to keep collecting the tolls on the La Romana-Santo Domingo highway. He said he would not allow a group of foreigners "to live off of the DR's money". Rua Diaz's comments are in response to CODACSA's announcement yesterday that they would sue the Dominican government, in a Parisian court, because it didn't fulfill its contractual obligations. The Minister said CODACSA is trying to swindle the government. He also said they lied to the Senate when they approved CODACSA's contract to build the highway. The contract to build the highway was agreed upon in 2002 and began in 2003 with an expected cost of RD$4 billion. The project would have three tollbooths and the investment would have been recovered in tollbooth revenues over 30 years. According to Public Works, only 30%, or 17 kilometers of the road have been built.
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