2011-02-03

Chilean tollroad concessionaire Costanera Norte which operates the expressway of the same name in capital Santiago, has won its appeal to raise tolls this year, the firm said in a filing sent to securities and insurance regulator SVS.   Santiago's eighth district civil court has reversed its ...

2011-02-03

Legislators from Colombia's conservative party have questioned the feasibility of a project to build a metro in capital Bogotá, according to a congressional release.   "As long as the accounts that back up financing of the Bogotá metro remain unclear, the future of the city...

2011-02-03

Argentina's La Rioja provincial road authority has received two technical offers for a 433mn-peso (US$108mn) tender to pave the Quebrada Santo Domingo-Pircas Negras highway, which connects with neighboring Chile.   The two bidders were a group formed of Benito Roggio and Vialman, and the cons...

2011-02-02

Uruguay's state-owned rail firm AFE will complete a project to repair and upgrade the Pintado-Rivera railway during the first half of 2011, the firm's general manager, José Nunes, told BNamericas.   The national government is investing US$30mn in the railway, which connects capital Mon...

2011-02-02

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim will invest 44.7bn (US$3.72bn) pesos in Mexico this year, local and international press quoted the tycoon as saying at a press conference.   The amount is 13% more than Slim invested during 2010, and could generate 20,000 direct and indirect jobs this year, the...

2011-02-02

Passenger volume on the Dominican Republic's Santo Domingo subway line 1 has grown almost fourfold from 25,000 to 97,000 passengers daily since it opened in 2009, according to the public transport reorganization authority Opret.   The subway has served 42mn people, benefiting lower-income seg...

2011-02-02

Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos has backed a project to build a metro system in capital Bogotá, provided it is properly structured and not carried out hastily, according to a presidential release.   During a meeting at the transport ministry, Santos said the project cannot go a...

2011-02-01

Ecuadorian state-owned rail company Ferrocarriles del Ecuador will invest US$59mn during 2011, the company's head of communications, Mayra Prado, told BNamericas.   The company plans to repair and improve 446km of the Quito-Guayaquil railway between capital Quito and Durán district in ...