Lima, Peru | Friday 20 November 2009 18:05 | | |
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My congratulations to Mayor Castaneda and his staff for the achievement in introducing in caotic Lima, a little relief in the transportation sistem of its citizen, living partially in Peru for now before my schedule retirement and return to Peru, I recognize the work and effort enduried by the Municipality of Lima to reach their goals, despite of the negativity of the politically inclined critics and ignorants that don't understant that, order is progress. I extend my congratulation to Living in Peru.com for the objetivity of this information. JHCorcuera# Daniel Villon says :
I live in Lima and I am very confused, I am reading this very interesting article and I am wondering if in some moment Mayor Castaneda will start talking with the Central Government to prepare a final solution for Lima instead of calculate every single move to look good for the next presidential elections. If you go to the following link http://www.trenurbano.gob.pe/ you will find that the Transport Ministry of Peru is working with another plan to introduce a metro service based in trains, which I believe, is most convenient solution for Lima...# Genoveva P. Lopez says :
Dear Daniel,# Daniel Villon says :
I read your comments and also the article livinginperu.com is presenting and I also follow the link you mention; and I came to the conclusion that there is not confusion in the building of these two projects, because they are designed to two different zones of Lima. The electric train project will cross districts as Villa El Salvador, San Juan de Miraflores, Surco, Surquillo, San Borja, San Luis, La Victoria, cercado de Lima and end up in Plaza Grau. While Major Castañeda project is a bus lane that will use Via Expresa or better know as "el zanjon," but it will start in Comas, with 10 express bus lanes, crossing districts as Comas, Los Olivos, Independencia, Rimac, San Martin de Porras, Breña, La Victoria, San Isidro, Surquillo, Miraflores, Surco, Barranco and it will end up in Matellini, Chorrillos. This trip of 36 Kms, will take no longer than 35 minutes, and the buses will use gas!!! I think that both are great projects and we as Peruvians should support both. I hope that Lima's citizens now as a broad vision of the world and realize that Lima is more than 50 years behind in public transportation compared with other cities in South America. Please see the positive in these projects, if not, we will never have anything done. There is nothing wrong with trying to look good for a presidencial candidacy, as long as that candidate really does something good for Lima, Peru. We all, peruvians will gain something, Lima needs both projects.
Genoveva P. Lopez
Dear Genoveva,
I will really encourage you to please check again the Ministry of Transport link, there you will see that the project that the Central Government is pushing is not only one line of a train, from Villa El Salvador to Grau, they have an study made by a Japanese Company in 2004 that recommends that Lima MUST have a train SYSTEM. What you see in that link is the project of what will be the next Lima METRO, it will not be underground but it will be a Metro, and one more thing, that project does not include the METROPOLITANO that our friend Castaneda is building, maybe because it will be nice, it will use gas, but it does not gives a solution to the central problem, the city needs structured long term solutions for main problems. Unless Castaneda has a plan like the one from the Ministry that we can see to use that buses system all over the city, the Metropolitano will not give us any MAIN solution, only to 8% of the public transportation, so the question will be. Was the Metropolitano build because is part of an integrated plan of transport the the city needs or is it part of a politic calculated plan to make Castaneda jump in popularity just before the presidential election?
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