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Santo Domingo.- The Public Works Ministry and the partnership formed by Brazilian builder Odebrecht and the local Constructora Rizek agreed to change the design of the Cibao-South cross mountain highway, to reduce cost, according to official documents quoted by newspaper Hoy .
The decision was reached to expedite Public Works’ negotiation with Odebrecht /Rizek, which seeks to cuts costs in the road project which links the Duarte highway with the towns Rancho Arriba, Piedra Blanca and San Jose de Ocoa.
The document notes that the Tender Committee evaluated the technical and economic proposals, and would oversee the expropriations to prevent ballooned costs.
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In less populated areas China has single track railways e.g. Sangendalai - Xilinhaote single track 148 km .
The extra time to transit would be compensated for by shorter total distances on average not needing to go along the coast and decreased gasoline compensation. Costs would be low so toll free would be possible. 50 mph per day and 40 mph by night would be possible with alarms requiring people to stop at passing places.
The beautiful countryside would be protected.
More farmers would have a shorter distance to market.
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We already have too many accidents for this
Limited road surfaces would be easy to maintain and pot holes could be reduced to a minimum.
Dominicans tend to drive in the middle of the road - no problem on single track roads!
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where needed. Then you would have a competitive freight and passanger R/R connecting the Cibao region to the sea.Specially now with cheap Haitians labor.
I come to think it is not to the Capital's (SD) best interest to do so since all the Cibao valley would
export & import via the North instead of the South where SD is located.Sooner or later they will
be forced to do so by foreign companies that want to save fuel coming from Europe,Canada,USA.
Suprisingly the companies from the forementioned countries did not apply pressure to the DR gvt to have such R/R build, to get the produced out to sea for shorter routes to their respective countries,or at least help to construct such R/R,as the Belgians did in 1890.
Agree that a RR from Santiago to say the Port of Manzanillo or PP would cut cost significantly and be a tremendous boost to export/import business for the Cibao region.
A South-North RR link will also help lower costs and reduce big truck traffic. Road maintenance costs reduced, too.
Hopefully both links will happen during this decade.
Am glad you are the only person that sees it my way. Let's not be too opptimistic about it, since
there are very powerfull forces ever since Trujillo's time to isolate & forget about the North region.I
just mentioned that as an utopian way of looking at it and puting aside the Capital sice business
prevails.
Atabey ,before that happens DR would have to reform its constitution by leting each Province do
their own local election as to Governors,deputies,Senators as well as be participant on the budget
As it is now all the programs are dependants on the National Treassury W/O giving the Provinces
a voice on how the money is to be spend.
"I just mentioned that as an Utopian way of looking at it and putting aside the Capital since business
prevails."
And in the final analysis, business will prevail. If money can be made, this will happen.