2011-01-26

The Dominican Republic's public works ministry has shut down a section of the El Rio-Jarabacoa highway to begin reconstruction on the fourth stretch of the two-lane, 24km highway.   The ministry included the US$71mn project in its 2011 budget, state news service Antena reported. Work began in...

2011-01-26

Chile's public works ministry (MOP) will tender construction of the first phase of the Ovalle bypass in central-northern region IV in March, according to regional MOP director Luis Cobo.   The ministry will finance the first phase of work, which will cost more than 9bn pesos (US$18.2mn), the ...

2011-01-26

Heavy rain that hit Panama in early December caused some US$150mn in damage to highway infrastructure, according to public works (MOP) minister Federico Suarez.   Flooding damaged highways in parts of Panama, Colon, Darien, Chiriqui, Bocas del Toro and Cocle provinces, paper La Prensa reporte...

2011-01-25

The government of Argentina's Chaco province will allocate over 520mn pesos (US$131mn) this year for works on the Ruta 16 highway, the provincial government reported in a release.   Works will begin in March and include repaving and improving roughly 50% of the route's Resistencia-Saenz Pe&nt...

2011-01-25

The Dominican Republic's regional development council (CRD) has urged President Leonel Fernandez to seek an agreement with the Indian government to build an international railway linking the country with neighboring Haiti.   CRD suggests India has the means to finance, build and manage the li...

2011-01-25

Chile's transport and communications ministry (MTT) has implemented new measures to address fare evasion on capital Santiago's public transportation system, Transantiago.   The ministry has placed 50 additional transport officials on three of the system's main avenues to check that passengers...

2011-01-25

Implementing mass transport systems in medium-sized Colombian cities will require an estimated investment of 1.5tn pesos (US$816mn) starting this year, an official from the national planning department (DNP) told BNamericas.   The investment will be covered by the public and private sectors, ...

2011-01-24

Domestic sales of construction materials in Brazil grew by 12.1% last year compared with 2009, national construction materials industry association (Abramat) said in a release.   The results were in line with the association's prediction, which was approximately 12%.   While sales of f...