Pedro Delgado suggests "revolution" road in RD

The engineer Pedro Delgado Malagón, ex - Minister of public works and communications, considered vital to revolutionize the road transport of Dominican Republic, which is why proposed creating four or five centres management regional.

Transport expert pointed out that the first thing you should do is inventory conditions of roads, drainage, count of sitemático across the network traffic, and create boards of monitoring under the Ministry of public works, as understood that this would be solution to 90% of the roads.

In addition, so engineers can form groups which assume tract of their areas, will increase the work in these regions and will have a better result, because they would be monitored by boards of monitoring with the participation of people prominent in the area.

Delgado Malagón explained, to participate as a guest to meet LISTÍN DIARIO in the u000aGlobalization, which coordinates the Economist Juan Guilliani Cury to this editor, for construction, reconstruction and maintenance of 4,600 kilometers of roads of Dominican Republic only required an investment of $2,000 million in four years, which could be achieved with concessions.

Said that the 5,400 km of roads there are 4,600 for reconstruction, and of these 950 are well and only require maintenance; 1,600 are regular, 1,300 in poor conditions and reconstruction there are about 730 km, in which we work.

"Usually is to rehabilitate him, evil is to rebuild it, and eliminating what is in the process or it's worth $2,000 million in four years, $500 million per year and, after four years the maintenance will be $250 million per year", stated.

Profitability would be of 19.4%, said. He argued that every dollar invested in maintenance reditúan between two and three dollars and u000amore.

Pointed out that no one would think stop paying the phone, because suspended you service, and therefore should be seen neither roads are free as the air that are made with money. 25% Of the Dominican GDP is the value of replacement of this road network, "i.e., that the total value of replacement of the highways and roads is $14,000 billion", currently indicated.

He also recalled that no place in America has worked the maintenance of roads, due to problems of logistics.

former Minister of public works noted, however, that in the last seven to eight years had been an extraordinary task, focused, because roads which support sector-core of the economy, as the tourism cited among these the Reef Road, granting Samana, tourism Atlantic Boulevard and is being done are being the ring road of the u000aRomana.

Similarly, pointed out the need for the construction of roads for the benefit of access to agricultural, products which in relation to that there are a lot of myth, because the system of roads is 5,400 kilometers (backbone, regional and local), which handles more than 90% of kilometre by passenger kilometres per ton and that system has been concesionando.

Today there are about 750 km concession and vocation to be awarded and therefore believed that the efforts being made are well designed and very quickly, especially because of constraints economic.

The autopista Duarte, said, is 5% of the road network and mobilizes 30% of the traffic of cargo and passengers.

Considers it essential, because the hub of South-North of Santo Domingo to Puerto Plata, is rebuild the Duarte Highway and ring road of Santiago, and also rebuild the road u000aSantiago-Navarrete, and expand the Navarrete-Puerto silver road to four lanes, under concessions.

Said, project is the reconstruction of the South-North axis and rehabilitate the road on November 6, San Cristóbal, from trafficking in aggregates, which is within the concession, as well as the Sánchez road and the maintenance of the Road San Cristóbal-Baní.

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