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05-25-2011, 04:30 PM
Engineer Diandino Pena, the mega-builder of the Santo Domingo Metro System, was in Congress yesterday urging legislators to hurry up and pass the EUR251-million loan package that will be used to buy the trains, rails and the electro-mechanical systems for the Metro II program. This sum of RD$13.5 billion pesos will be used to attempt to make up the four month in arrears in the construction of the second Metro line.
The EUR251 million will be used to bolster the US$770 million the second line will cost, all told. Pena told Hoy reporters that the engineers set apart from Metro II, which is supposed to run from Los Alcarrizos to San Isidro, a section they call Metro IIA for completion in this administration, and that will run from Luperon Avenue to the Francisco del Rosario Sanchez Bridge. Pena said that this phase involves the civil engineering part of the project and consists of the stations, tunnels and ventilation system that they are building with government resources and which is 60-70% finished. He said they expect it to be done within eight months.
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The EUR251 million will be used to bolster the US$770 million the second line will cost, all told. Pena told Hoy reporters that the engineers set apart from Metro II, which is supposed to run from Los Alcarrizos to San Isidro, a section they call Metro IIA for completion in this administration, and that will run from Luperon Avenue to the Francisco del Rosario Sanchez Bridge. Pena said that this phase involves the civil engineering part of the project and consists of the stations, tunnels and ventilation system that they are building with government resources and which is 60-70% finished. He said they expect it to be done within eight months.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)