NewsWhore
06-27-2011, 02:10 PM
On Friday, Odebrecht workers completed the drilling of the tunnel that will ease traffic flow from Ortega y Gasset (Olympic Center) Avenue to the UASD university (Jose Contreras avenue and Santo Tomas de Aquino street) in the south of the city. With a length of 1.2kms, the tunnel is the longest ever built in the DR. It will have two lanes with a width of 3.65 meters. The Ministry of Public Works reported that the work would cost US$50 million (RD$1.7 billion +) and should be completed by the end of the year. He said the 25-meter deep tunnel was 70% complete.
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