NewsWhore
09-21-2006, 07:40 PM
The Director of the Office for the Reorganization of Transport (OPRET), Diandino Pena, has announced the signing of a contract for EUR$99 million, equivalent to some RD$4.2 billion, to be used in the construction of the electromechanical installations of the Santo Domingo Metro. The contractor is the Franco-German consortium, Siemens-Thales. This money would pay for the station controls, the electrification of the entire metro, ticketing booths, ATP signage, energy distribution, a communications bridge and a command station. The Ministry of Finances will now evaluate the contrary, prior to deciding whether to send it to Congress. Pena pointed out that 35% of the metro project had been completed in its first 10 months of construction. Construction of the metro began in January. To this point, the metro has cost Dominican taxpayers RD$3 billion. Pena denied the OPRET office had asked the government-owned Banco de Reservas for a RD$3 billion to continue the construction of the metro. He said that by 2008 the metro would be completed.
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