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11-03-2006, 02:40 PM
Engineer Leonel Carrasco, sub-director of evaluation and communications for OPRET (the government's transport reorganization office in charge of the construction of the Metro) attributed geologist Osiris de Leon's comments yesterday to a lack of information about the real reason why construction on the Metro has been stopped. In yesterday's Diario Libre, de Leon said that the reason the Metro construction was stopped was because there have been landslides and cave-ins on the project site, and not because an excavation machine was damaged, as had been reported. Carrasco said that de Leon is wrong about stoppages at two points of the metro line, in front of APEC University and from Mozart to Jimenez Moya, and that each point only needs 400 and 300 meters to be dug with the excavation equipment. Carrasco also said that feasibility and geo-technical studies had in fact been conducted before embarking on the Metro construction, and that as it happens, Geoconsult was one of the companies that carried out this work.
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