Peru’s housing and construction ministry will build two aerial cable car lines to improve mobility in the working-class districts of north Lima. Both lines will require a total investment of $84 million. Bidding for the $51 million North Lima line will begin in October. The first line will connect the Independencia and San Juan de Lurigancho districts in north Lima.
China construirá el ferrocarril transoceánico que unirá Brasil y Perú, Atlántico y pacífico con una longitud de unos 4.700 kilómetros que dará acceso, además, a grandes zonas productora e materias primas y alimentos. Los primeros estudios de la línea, entre ellos los de viabilidad y financieros, ya se han iniciado y se prevé que sus conclusiones puedan estará listas en un año, en mayo de 2016.
Luis Castañeda Lossio, the mayor of the Peruvian capital, has confirmed that the metropolitan municipality will be unable to fund the cities proposed monorail network, and the project must solely funded through private investment if it is to proceed. “The municipality does not have the economic capacity to do this, we all know it and we know it very well”, the mayor of Lima explained.
Evo Morales this week refuted Peruvian President Ollanta Humala’s claims that the Bi-Oceanic railway will not pass through Bolivian territory, insisting that two options remain under consideration and that the Bolivian route would be both shorter and cheaper than the more northerly alternative.
Eleonora Silva, CAF Director in Peru, announced that the Latin American development bank is ready to offer in excess of $US 600 million towards the construction of Lima’s $5.7 billion Line 2 project.
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