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The rail-transport system will be modernized… some day

March 10, 2017 by Staff News Writer

The rail-transport system will be modernized… some day.

Although president Luis Guillermo Solís declared that the goal was to have a better rail-transport system in 2017 or 2018, Cristian Vargas, executive president of the Costa Rican Railroad Institute (INCOFER), said that authorities will need decades to have a modern service.

The project is known as the Fast Passenger Transporting Train (TRP), which is already registered in the Ministry of Planning (MIDEPLAN). INCOFER is now working on it in order to modernize the service.

Vargas described the project as “complex” and INCOFER is negotiating a trust to finance it. He asure that the complete modernization of the railway system would take decades. It is estimated at about $ 1.6 billion.

The official declared that INCOFER is working along with the Ministry of Finance and the Presidential House to try to implement this project.

crhoy.com

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