translated from Spanish: Mendoza receives US $50 million to modernize Route 82

The province has the preapproval of the financing for the remodeling of Route 82. With the nation’s approval the work, which will have six tranches of construction, has an investment of US $80 million. The Inter-American Development Bank will provide US $50 million, while the remaining US $30 million is going to make it Mendoza. ” We have been working for more than two years in the project with the Governor Alfredo Cornejo because we know of the need to improve a route that increased exponentially the transit in the last decades. It is a debt to the neighbors of Luján and tourists visiting Cacheuta and Potrerillos. Today we are in a position to say that the work will begin this year, said Martín Kerchner, Minister of Economy, Infrastructure and Energía.La work, which is to become an urban highway with two lanes of circulation, and according to official information, It will benefit 870,000 inhabitants of the greater Mendoza, as well as the population of Chacras de Coria, Vistalba, Las Floodgates and Cacheuta. The project includes double track, bike paths, sidewalks, stops for public transport, pedestrian crosses, as well as Refuncionalizar some unused sections currently. The province is expected to advance with the bidding process, prior to the Legislature. In this note:
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