Fernandez opened the UASD tunnel

President Leonel Fernandez, accompanied by his wife, First Lady Margarita Cedeño de Fernández, inaugurated yesterday the "tunnel UASD", built by the Ministry of public works with an investment of over US$ 50 million.

Is the seventh component of the project corridor Duarte, built in the extension of avenida Ortega y Gasset, between avenida 27 de Febrero and José Contreras, with a length of 1.20 kilometers.

The tunnel was designed by public works to move at a speed of 50 kilometres per hour and is the first in that category in Dominican Republic.

reported that the play was built with technology that allowed to pass through the ground in more than one kilometre in length, at a depth reaching up to 25 metres below the foundations of buildings and structures between the avenues on February 27, Mexico, Pedro Henríquez u000aUreña, César Nicolás Penson, Bolívar and José Contreras.

"The work which the President delivered today (yesterday) citizenship, will allow about 15 thousand vehicles to shorten daily travelling North–South time." "This tunnel will serve to decongest the flows of vehicles that agglomerate at the intersections of the February 27 avenues and Máximo Gómez", added.

He said that they have prepared solutions of the corridor Duarte II, which were designed to further improve the living conditions of the centres urban.

Cited among the set of new works designed the North-South tunnels on the 27 February with Máximo Gómez, on February 27, with Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, February 27 while in direction East-West the intersection of the February 27 with Caonabo, on February 27, with private and extension on February 27, with Isabel Aguiar.

Stressed that the solutions have delivered the project corridor Duarte I of the u000aAvenue John f. Kennedy with Núñez de Cáceres and Dr. Defilló Street, as well as the February 27 with Defilló and Carmen Mendoza Cornielle and Charles De Gaulle to Highway San Isidro.

He added that to complete this project are in phase of completion the high road with Monumental Avenue and Duarte Avenue Manoguayabo.

It also reported that Fernandez finished his Government soon deliver other 25 new works road.

Details
for lighting of the tunnel were placed luminaires of steam, a system of white color metal of 200 and 400 watts, while surveillance is placed 13 video cameras, which are monitored from a control center located in the Ortega y Gasset with 27 of Febrero.Dispone of fans and sensors of smoke.

The event also attended by Cesar Pina Toribio, Luis Manuel Bonetti, the lieutenant general Joaquín Virgilio Perez Féliz, Alexandrian Germán, Ligia Amada Melo, Abel u000aRodríguez, Felipe Payano; Ambassador Brazil, Joao Saneiro, Diandino Peña, Marino Vinicio Castillo, Manuel Estrella, Luis Sergio Costa and Pedro Delgado Malagón.

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Authorities Spotlight benefits of the TÚNE L
at the ceremony was the Mayor of Santo Domingo, Roberto Salcedo, who emphasized the inputs to the transit corridor Duarte works that makes present.

In his welcome speech he emphasized that work is preparing the capital to deal successfully with the significant increase in inhabitants in areas urban.

While the rector of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo, Mateo Aquino Febrillet, emphasized that tunnel is the second road built by the Government of President Fernandez which directly benefit teachers, students and employees of the Academy.

The first work to which reference is made is the Santo Domingo Metro, stressing that both save time and money to members of the u000aUASD.

Also requested, inter alia, the construction of a pedestrian bridge at the exit of the tunnel to this area of high traffic is isolated from the hundreds of people who each day visit the campus using the street Juan Sánchez Ramírez.

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