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Through an agreement between the mayor of Managua and the International Cooperation Agency of Japan, a plan will be developed for territorial reorganization, public transport and drainage for the city.
Authorities at the Mayoral office in Managua said the document including the conditions of the project would be ready in 18 months. The plan intends to meet the economic, social and environmental needs of the Nicaraguan capital, by improving the current conditions in the city.
The Ministry of Public Works in El Salvador has announced a tender for the construction of the first section of the Metropolitan Transit System, for about $10 million.
Viceminister Nelson Garcia said that this stage will consist of 3.3 kilometers of streets with dedicated lanes for articulated buses.
The stretch will run from Soyapango terminal to Avenida Norte 33, and will have three stops.
The bidding process for the construction of the main terminal of the Integrated Transport System of the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador "SITRAMSS", will start next week..
The terminal will be located in the municipality of Soyapango, will cost $4 million and construction is planned to begin 45 days after the tender has been awarded, said Vice Minister of Transport, Nelson Garcia.
Banrural and the German Bank for Development and Investment have granted a loan to Servicios para Centrales S.A. to finish building the bus transfer terminal CentraNorte in Guatemala.
The Rural Development Bank (Banrural) and the German Bank for Development and Investment (DEG, by its German acronym), have agreed to pay $40 million to the company Servicios para Centrales S.A., to complete construction of the bus transfer terminal CentraNorte, reported Elperiodico.com.gt.
On April 4th, a tender process will begin for the construction of a terminal for the Integrated Transport System for the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador (SITRAMSS).
The terminal will be located in the municipality of Soyapango, will cost $4 million and according to the plans, construction should begin 45 days after the award of the tender, said Vice Minister of Transport, Nelson Garcia.
Members of the Finance Commission of El Salvador have agreed to approve a loan for $45 million to upgrade the public transport system.
A press release from the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador states that:
“The approval of a loan agreement signed between the Government of El Salvador and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), for the amount of $45 million to finance the implementation of a "Transportation Program for the Metropolitan Area of San Salvador" was the subject discussed by the deputies in the Special Committee on Finance and Budget.”
The resources will be allocated to transport, energy and climate change, agricultural productivity, health and social protection.
The announcement was made by the representative of the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) in Nicaragua, Mirna Marquez Liévano.
Of the total, $31.4 million will be used for social investment projects, such as water and sanitation programs in secondary cities in Nicaragua and for the development of a plan to reduce the amount of non billed water in Masaya.
The Colombian company, Conconcreto, has announced an investment of $25 million to build the project.
The new bus terminal will have capacity to serve two million passengers a month, and will be built by Conconcreto and the company Servicios Para Centrales, originally from Guatemala, which will provide the remaining 50% of the investment ($25 million).
The complex will also have space for 300 banks, restaurants and shops.
In order to ease congestion of traffic coming from the East, a bus terminal will be built, which will be able to receive 2 million passengers per month.
Buses coming from that area will not have to go into the city, helping to improve traffic conditions in the capital, especially in rush hours.
A document contains summarized development proposals for 541 major projects with a total investment budget of over $2,500 million.
The overall objective of the plan is to formulate a tool for territorial planning in the medium and long term (projected to the year 2024), which integrates proposed land development - rural and urban- at a local and sub-regional level, with the opportunities and challenges of each of the municipalities that are part of the Sub Region 1, in order to achieve feasible and viable proposals that will contribute to improving the economic, social, and environmental conditions and the quality of life of its inhabitants, providing the social agents with an instrument that will allow them to manage local development efficiently .
The Transport Ministry announced the construction of a transportation system with articulated buses with preferential lanes.
This model, known as BRT (Bus Rapid Transit), consists in the development of exclusive lanes for high capacity modern buses and has been implemented in countries such as Guatemala, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico.
The plan includes a network of 6 main routes, the first of which will run for 5.3 kilometers from Soyapango Integration Terminal to the transfer station in Plaza Gerardo Barrios, in front of the Cathedral.
Panama's public acquisitions directorate has rejected the claim presented by GMP consortium.
The public acquisitions directorate judged that GMP's attempts to demonstrate its experience were not detailed enough and that the content was largely superficial. In doing so it supported the evaluating committee's decision to disqualify the consortium.
"This clears the way for the Metro Secretariat to award the contract to the Spanish-Venezuelan consortium made up of TMB, Ayesa and Inelectra. This group presented the lowest economic offer of $27.9 million," reports Prensa.com.
The Panama Metro Management (GMP) consortium has presented a complaint to the country's public acquisitions directorate.
The consortium took part in the invitation to tender for the management of Panama's metro project together with four other companies but was disqualified.
"In its complaint, GMP claims that the evaluation report is based on subjective considerations and analysis that fall at the margin of criteria stipulated in public acquisitions law and in the bid documents," reports La Prensa.