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08-13-2010, 04:20 PM
President Leonel Fernandez has attended the inaugural of the first elevated section of the Duarte Corridor. The John F. Kennedy intersection at Nunez de Caceres is the first of six overpasses in the Duarte Corridor, financed with Brazilian loans and built by Norberto Odebrecht from Brazil with Ingenieria Estrella as the local counterpart.
The resources to build the Duarte Corridor come from a US$163 million loan obtained from the National Economic and Social Development Bank of Brazil.
The overpass has six lanes, three in each direction, with a width of 3.65 meters each and 500 meters in length. The overpass itself goes for 200 meters. It is designed to handle 126,000 vehicles a day, and as many as 3,000 an hour at peak times going from east to west and 3,500 going from west to east.
The Minister of Public Works, Victor Diaz Rua, said: "Today, following the precise instructions of the President, we have increased these solutions to eight in number, adding the tunnels of 27 de Febrero at the intersections of Nunez de Caceres, Dr. Defillo, and Carmen de Mendoza Cornielle", he said.
Referring to former President Hipolito Mejia, Diaz Rua said that if the President of the former administration had carried out his threat of "planting plantains in the first tunnels built by Fernandez, this city would be in chaos".
The minister announced that they would soon open a new tender for the north-south solutions, to ease the problems on Maximo Gomez, Tiradentes, Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill avenues as well as Isabel de Aguiar and 27 de Febrero.
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The resources to build the Duarte Corridor come from a US$163 million loan obtained from the National Economic and Social Development Bank of Brazil.
The overpass has six lanes, three in each direction, with a width of 3.65 meters each and 500 meters in length. The overpass itself goes for 200 meters. It is designed to handle 126,000 vehicles a day, and as many as 3,000 an hour at peak times going from east to west and 3,500 going from west to east.
The Minister of Public Works, Victor Diaz Rua, said: "Today, following the precise instructions of the President, we have increased these solutions to eight in number, adding the tunnels of 27 de Febrero at the intersections of Nunez de Caceres, Dr. Defillo, and Carmen de Mendoza Cornielle", he said.
Referring to former President Hipolito Mejia, Diaz Rua said that if the President of the former administration had carried out his threat of "planting plantains in the first tunnels built by Fernandez, this city would be in chaos".
The minister announced that they would soon open a new tender for the north-south solutions, to ease the problems on Maximo Gomez, Tiradentes, Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill avenues as well as Isabel de Aguiar and 27 de Febrero.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)