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Article: Rapid rails for Uruguay
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- Americas
- Article date:
- September 1, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright Organization of American States, Sales and Promotion Division Sep/Oct 1997. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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URUGUAY'S state-run Administracion de Ferrocarriles del Estado (AFE) will soon call for "expressions of interest" from bidders hoping to construct a US$230 million privately financed suburban railway system. The seventeen-mile-long railway will extend from Montevideo east to El Pinar and other cities along the Atlantic coast, according to AFE president Victor Vaillant. He calls the current transportation situation "grave" in light of rapid suburban population growth in the area.
"The highways aren't sufficient to move all these people," Vaillant said. "It now costs two dollars and takes an hour and forty minutes to get from El Pinar to Montevideo by colectivo [public bus]."
With AFE's ...