President will visit second-line Metro February 27

President Leonel Fernandez will travel on 27 February the second line of the subway, in which upon completion the Government will have invested $830 million.

The information offered it yesterday at the National Palace the director of the Office for the reorganization of transport (OPRET), Diandino Peña, who said that the representative will take the subway in the Centre of heroes, will arrive at the John f. Kennedy with Máximo Gómez, and from there take the train to kilometer nine of the Duarte Highway and return to the station which is at avenida Duarte.

Peña reported that cars would begin to arrive in the country in early February and it is expected that the part of the works that they are working will be ready in August this year, when completed the present mandate.

He said that at the end of the Government will the work be ready in the entire phase corresponding to the civil works will be so only missing the train.

"Intend to which the" u000a"work is ready so that the next Government will be compelled and forced to put into circulation, the trains that are missing," argued.

The second line of the subway will be composed of 14 stations, and required a 17 trains. He said that a consortium of German, French and Spanish companies merged and is responsible for most of the construction, while the civil works have been carried out by more than 500 engineers Dominicans.

Peña reported that the structure of the subway is ready to support any type of Quake, so there should be no fear.

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