Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Argentina will improve urban transport with capital of the BM

The Argentine mass media, as well as the international ones, have done to themselves echo of the decision of the World Bank of granting an important loan to the government of Argentina. The organism will give 150 million dollars to the administration of the president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to specify an ambitious urban transport project in the South American country.

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In the last hours it was possible to be known that the World Bank granted a loan for 150 million dollars, sum that will be invested in the Project of Urban transport for Metropolitan Areas in the Argentina, also known by the initials PTUMA.

Across this initiatory innovator, one will think about how to achieve a progress of the quality and the sustentabilidad of the urban transport of the metropolitan areas of Argentina, as he informed the web site of the BM.

It is valid to clarify that this is the first part of the help that the international organism will drink to this project, which will cost in whole about 400 million dollars, as he informed the Department of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services of the South American country across his official web page.

The above mentioned Argentine secretariat of the State published some of the targets of this program. For example, it will be looked: 1) to endorse design and creation of an agency of multijurisdictional transport for the Metropolitan Area of the city of Buenos Aires; 2) and to improve quality and performance of the urban infrastructure of transport in metropolitan areas with the achievement of road works of connectivity, he published the web.

The proper director of the BM for Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, Pedro Alba, realized declarations about the granting of this millionaire loan for the progress of the systems of transport. For the leader, this will encourage the economic growth and will allow all to be able to gain access, for example, to the urban services, he informed the web of the World Bank.

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