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10-15-2007, 04:50 PM
Geological engineer Orsiris de Leon, a fierce opponent of the manner in which the metro is being constructed, has announced that the Dominican government is paying as much as double the price for the subway cars it is purchasing from the French Alston company. De Leon told television interviewer Guillermo Gomez that China was buying 246 subway cars for the Shanghai metro at a price of EUR110 million, and he questioned whether the EUR92.4 million was the real price for the 57 cars being purchased by the Dominican government. De Leon also questioned the start-up date set for February, and likened the situation to that of Majorca, Spain, where the subway was inaugurated without being quite ready and suffered serious flooding that caused serious damage to the system. De Leon pointed out construction problems in several sections of the route, including cracks in apartment buildings nears the tunnels.
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