|
The San Juan-Caguas Rail project, currently named NOVOTRÉN,〔(novotren.com ) A innovative, reliable and sustainable public transport system that will unite Caguas and the Eastern Central Region with the San Juan Metropolitan Area 〕 will link the Puerto Rican cities of San Juan and Caguas through a "regional rail network". The plan was announced by the Mayor of Caguas, William Miranda Marín, along with former governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá on . The agreement signed creates a public-private society between three parties: the central government, the city council and a regional partnership; it entails an investment of $200 million by the central government through the Government Bank of Development (Banco Gubernamental de Fomento in Spanish). The total cost of the project is estimated at between $375 million and $400 million US dollars. The execution of the project will be in charged by Mideast Technology Initiative "Tecnológica Centro Oriental" (INTECO),〔(intecopr.org )〕 a non-profit organization that groups municipal governments, academic and industrial institutions of the region. The new line will include two stops in Caguas that will connect the Tren Urbano (Urban Train in English) in San Juan. The mayor of Caguas projected that in first year ridership should be between 10,000 and 15,000 daily, and that it should climb to about 20,000 in a year and a half. The Puerto Rico Highway & Transportation Authority (PRHTA) has chosen The Innovative Transportation Group (ITG) - formed by French rail and urban transport management and design consultancy Semaly and Ray and locals such as architect Raúl Gayá, a project group which carried out the study, the drafting of enterprise consultation file documents and assistance in the choice of the contract holders.〔(bnamericas.com ), Study: Caguas-San Juan rail line feasible, accessed September 15, 2009.〕 On March 2013, the name of the project was revealed and it will be called the NOVOTREN. ==Overview== San Juan is the capital of Puerto Rico, and its metropolitan area has a population of approximately 2 million, almost one half of the main island's total. It is the economic and political center of Puerto Rico, and its main international entry point. Currently a automated metro system "Tren Urbano" is operating and underused.〔(Tren Urbano PR another way low transit ridership forecast ), TOLLROADS News, November 20, 2005, accessed August 21, 2007.〕 Caguas, located about south of San Juan, is the fifth-largest city in terms of population with approximately 200,000. It is part of the agricultural, commercial and industrial core of the central region as well as part of the San Juan Metropolitan Area.〔(caguas.gov.pr ) Accessed August 21, 2007.〕 Currently, the main form of transportation between these two cities is by two highways, PR-52 and PR-1. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「San Juan-Caguas Rail」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|