Dominican Republic tackling road roughness and safety

Work is now going ahead on the Viadom road construction project in the Dominican Republic.
February 27, 2012 Read time: 1 min
RSSWork is now going ahead on the Viadom road construction project in the Dominican Republic. The 3268 Dominican Republic Ministry of Public Works says that the project requires an investment of US$470 million. The work itself is for the rebuilding of the Duarte highway and the Circunvalacion de Santiago and Santiago-Navarrete roads. The Dominican Republic intends to rebuild and upgrade 269km of the country's most heavily used road links through the Viadom project so as to improve surfaces and help tackle accident rates. The company handling the project is Dominicana de Vias Concesionadas.

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