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Santo Domingo.- With a ribbon cutting headed by president Leonel Fernandez, the Public Works Ministry yesterday inaugurated the tunnel which links Ortega & Gasset avenue with the Santo Domingo State University (UASD) campus, on Santo Tomás de Aquino street.

The work, built at a cost of more than US$50.0 million and the seventh structure of the Corridor Duarte roadwork project, is a 1.2 kilometer long, North-South underpass.

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Written by: BASTA, 19 Jan 2012 5:36 AM
From: Dominican Republic, =Ghetto/Legalize Drugs
Ahha a photo-op for Ms Piggie
Written by: stillhere, 19 Jan 2012 5:51 AM
From: Dominican Republic
or "more than" $41,666.66 a meter...
Written by: FedericoD, 19 Jan 2012 5:54 AM
From: Canada
Would not a surface trolly car solution have been much more practical? for basically one mile of travel?

This really is an insane irrational investment of cash ...
Written by: jcl_67, 19 Jan 2012 6:15 AM
From: Dominican Republic
wow, $50 million for less than a mile, corruption at it's fines, that is almost 2000 millones de pesos think of all the homes he could have built for the poor.
Written by: RobertoJose, 19 Jan 2012 6:51 AM
From: United States, FREEPORT, Long Island.... (Look, beyond the words)
Too many hands in the pot, if you ask me.

Leonel awards the contract to the highest bidder which in most cases has a personal relationship with leo, then the G.C goes and subs it out to another friend that subs it out to another friend.... Doesn't leo also sign the checks

Leo is a one stop shop......
Written by: Ricardolito, 19 Jan 2012 7:12 AM
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
and what a boring ceremony it was on TV
Written by: WalterPolo, 19 Jan 2012 7:43 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Typical Purple Gang shenanigan.

They've become sophisticated to avoid other SunLand situations of money for nothing.

The actual trend is overpriced public works. It works well, from what I can see.
Written by: RoyStone, 19 Jan 2012 10:39 AM
From: Australia
jcl_67,
The government has a mandate to provide infrastructure. Fortunately, it does not have a mandate to provide housing for the poor. They are already heavily subsidized by the minority of Dominicans who actually pay taxes.
Written by: Concatchero, 19 Jan 2012 12:35 PM
From: Dominican Republic
"2000 millones de pesos think of all the homes he could have built for the poor."

And the jobs created!

Or how much the Dept. of Education could have used this to get back on track with other nations.

What a waste!
Written by: RoyStone, 19 Jan 2012 12:59 PM
From: Australia
What makes you think money spent on this tunnel would have otherwise been spent on education?

Education is in a sorry state, but so are the roads. Get rid of defense and sport expenditure and we could fix both the roads and education.

Written by: Concatchero, 19 Jan 2012 1:11 PM
From: Dominican Republic
Not would but COULD have! There is a lot of things to fix here, I agree. Not a fan of this kind of spending to give jobs to friends and families of politicians. It is a total waste of tax payer's money when it could be spent by fixing, lets say the crappy electricity grid.

Cheerio!
Written by: hellborn25, 19 Jan 2012 7:09 PM
From: United States, words of wisdom from the nutcracker
another ribbon cutting from leo , to bad he can put those 50 million on a solution for the lights going out.
Written by: RoyStone, 20 Jan 2012 10:59 AM
From: Australia
If people paid for their electricity consumption, the lights could stay on. However Dominicans would rather spend their money on batteries and an inverter.
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