A number of projects are being prepared for 2015 including drainage works and channel stabilization, installation of traffic lights, construction and improvement of roads in the capital.
Part of the work to carried out includes "... The creation of an alternative route to the Country Club Golf Course -Sabana Grande - with complementary works, drainage works in Santa Rosa, stabilization of La Primavera spring in its third phase, and the seventh stage of the Park 'Luis Alfonso Velázquez Flores.'"
The government has announced that it will be obtaining a loan from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration to rebuild 97 miles of roads and trails that connect with the Caribbean.
In order to improve links with the Caribbean, roads will be paved with reinforced concrete, stretching 44.6 kilometers from the town of Mulukukú to Siuna and 52.5 kilometers between the towns of Rama, Kukra Hill and the Junction of Laguna de Perlas.
More projects for water and sanitation, roads and electricity distribution will receive funding from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration.
Among the projects to be funded is the rehabilitation of the Juan Pablo II runway, which will be run by the mayor of Managua and the purchase of new transformers and electrical connecting units for the National Electricity Transmission Company (ENATREL).
The award of the works became final once construction contract has been signed by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure of Nicaragua.
The consortium formed by Cemex Nicaragua, Constructora Meco and Llansa Ingenieros, will build the first section of 31 kilometers of road between empalme Nejapa and Puerto Sandino.
The Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (MTI) signed the contract for the construction of 50.63 km of the road known as the 'Carretera Vieja a León' (Old Road to Leon). Its construction was divided into two sections, the first (31.43 kilometers) will be implemented by the consortium formed by Cemex Nicaragua, Constructora Meco and Llansa Ingenieros.
This year the Nicaraguan Ministry of Transportation plans to pave 220 new kilometers and perform maintenance on 1,100 kilometers of roads.
Within the work planned is the paving of about 220 km of new roads and the maintenance of 1,100 km of roads and intercity streets, said the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, José Amadeo Santana.
"Although Santana did not specify what the pending projects are, he said a focus on rural roads is a priority this year, because they are trying to pave 140 kilometers funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE ).
Nicaragua's National Assembly has approved a loan to be used to finance a Project for the Improvement of Rural Road Infrastructure.
From the press release from the National Assembly of Nicaragua:
The plenary of the National Assembly approved the February 23rd, a loan agreement between the Government of Nicaragua and the International Development Association (IDA) at the World Bank, amounting to 35 million dollars in order to finance a rural road infrastructure improvement project.
The World Bank loan will help improve the country’s rural road infrastructure.
From the World Bank press release:
The World Bank Board of Executive Directors today approved a project for $35 million that will help improve the infrastructure of rural roads in Nicaragua and will benefit about 75,000 people, of whom just over half are women.
The infrastructure improvements in rural roads project has the following objectives: expanding the rural population’s access to markets and social and administrative services through improvements in road infrastructure, strengthening the institutional capacity of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (MTI) against the risk of natural disasters and support the generation of employment opportunities in the short term for the inhabitants of the areas.
The lack of resources for repairs and bad weather in recent years has increasingly deteriorated roads.
Although resources were allocated last year for the country’s road repairs, this has not been enough to offset the adverse effect of weather, which has damaged several sections of the road network.
Adding to the problem is the decline in revenue the government receives through the Maintenance Fund, which is raised by charging a fixed fee of 16 cents per gallon on fuel consumption .