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SANTO DOMINGO.- The Government plans to spend more than RD$50.0 billion (US$1 in infrastructure nationwide next year, with around RD$23.7 billion just for the Public Works Ministry, RD$8.0 billion of which are internal funds and US$420 million from abroad.
Public Works minister Victor Diaz Rúa said that entity’s 2010 budget of RD$29.7 billion almost doubles that of 2009. "It will be the biggest Public Works budget in history."
During a meeting with the members of the Dominican Construction Chamber (Cadocon), he affirmed that in the two years and three months as head of Public Works 113 works have been concluded totaling RD$3.06 billion, whereas large projects which had been halted such as highways, roads, avenues, structures and ports were reinitiated, despite the country’s limitations.
Among the many works finished and inaugurated so far this year Diaz cited the Santo Domingo-Samaná Highway and also announced an asphalting plan worth US$500 million, to start in all provinces next week.
The works to be inaugurated and finished in the 2010 are the highway San Cristóbal Baní, to be inaugurated in March, at a cost of RD$3.04 billion; the construction of a new bridge across the Soco River, in San Pedro (east), to be inaugurated in February, and the reconstruction of the 51 kilometer Constanza highway, with US$85.3 million.
Another large project to be inaugurated next year is the 3.23 kilometer Duarte Corridor, which costs US$163.8 million, including a tunnel underneath the 27 de Febrero avenue.
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Diaz also announced that the Government will initiate the construction of the 27 de Febrero Avenue Corridor in 2011, between the Winston Churchill and Luperón avenues, which includes three overpasses at the streets Defilló and Carmen Mendoza and the Nuñez de Cáceres avenue.
Construction of the Tourist Boulevard of the Atlantic will be also be initiated, as well as the second stage of the Santo Domingo-Samaná road concession.
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I hope this will bring about jobs with worthy pay. All that spending money and projects which I still consider to be great things indeed, yet there is still poverty and lack of jobs is something I can never wrap my mind around it.
Here too?
As a regular traveler over this river, I have watched for over two years the slow progress of the bridge construction.
Most projects of this nature should be completed in 6 months.
My bet would be that its completion will be another year from now.
Who is the general contractor? Dominican or Brazilian?
The entire road between la Romana and San Pedro has been as dominican as you can imagine ..you never know what side of the road will be open or closed and the changes are often only marked by several 44 gallon drums .The drivers are determined to choose between setting records of who can go the fastest and who can go the slowest, there are dead animals always on the road and every week a dead human as well.
I have imagined that the slow progress has been caused by lack of fundsand lack of spare parts for machinary ...but will be glad when it is all finished
An uneducated and undereducated society can not advance or compete in the world no matter home many fill you eyes, feel good, and let’s get reelected projects you commission.
The most significant, cost effective and profitable investment we can make is in the education of our children, anything less is a recipe for disaster or stagnation at best.
Those are wealth countries which we a far, far, far from being. We need to establish a development plan based on national priorities AND ECONOMIC REALITIES not feel good whimsical wants. THESE NATIONAL PRIOTRIES MUST BE CONSIDERED ON THE BASIS OF WHAT IS THE LONG TERM SOCIAL INTEREST THAT GIVE US THE MOST “BANG FOR THE PESO!”
“and the metro is there now so maybe you can move on to a new condemnation”
This is the typical Dominican mentality of take in the rear and move on. Well that cultural trait is what allows these criminals to plunder and pillage our natural treasures and our national treasury with impunity.
Maybe you got the kind of money where $750,000,000 million dollars doesn’t matter to you, but to me that means thousands of Dominican children whose future was robbed, by not spending that money on EDUCATION
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You can choose to continue providing the VASELINE I and many others refuse to do so!
Lets keep it clean my amigo!
Yes the country has many, many necessities, but out of those we must decide which are the priorities:
I say health, education, food production, public safety and electricity are the most significant priorities.
Traffic jams in my opinion are not at that level although important. I guarantee you that there were and are more cost effective ways to reorganize the LOCAL transportation system in Santo Calcutta than spending $750,000,000 dollars with a additional $25,000,000 million annual subsidy, while neglecting the other more pressing NATIONAL priorities.