After having dragged on through the course of the present administration, the project, initially called the Peripheral Metropolitan Ring Road and then the Regional Ring Road, has been mentioned by the communications minister, Alejandro Sinibaldi, who announced that "the objective is to perform engineering and ground plan studies. The new studies will cost U.S. $4 million and the bidding process will begin in June 2013. "

According to Prensalibre.com Sinibaldi "ruled out that under their administration the work would starts, as previous governments had announced."

The road would connect 58 municipalities in eight departments.

- The original project called the Peripheral Metropolitan Ring Road, would have been 169 km in length. It was not feasible because of the difficulty of acquiring rights of way.

- The government of Oscar Berger planned two ring roads: one intermediate one measuring 100 kilometers and another measuring 120, but none materialized.

- In the administration of Alvaro Colom the project was relaunched as the Regional Ring and attempted to connect 58 municipalities in Guatemala, El Progreso, Jalapa, Jutiapa, Sacatepéquez, Escuintla, Chimaltenango and Santa Rosa on a 402 kilometer long road.

- Minister Sinibaldi said that under the current administration only the studies will be carried out in order to decide where the road will be built.

Source: prensalibre.com

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