Rafael López Aliaga on Metro Line 2: “That deal stinks, it's done badly”

Mayor of Municipality of Lima (MML), Rafael Lopez AliagaHe criticized that only five kilometers in 10 years Line 2 of the Lima MetroJob advertised Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) Aimed at unification of districts ate And this Callo.

In that regard, the mayor pointed out that the agreement signed between the MDC and the federation, which is responsible for executing the project, “stinks”.

“It smells terrible, it's not normal that it takes 10 years to do five kilometers, you can't lie to people,” López Aliaga told the show. It's never too late of RPP.

“It was born out of a bad deal, with outdated technology, technology not used on Earth,” he added.

During the construction of the project they “bankrupted five thousand businesses on the Central Highway, Aylan Road, and damaged millions of Peruvians in man-hours,” he said, “to give us a ridiculous five kilometers after 10 years.”

“It's very poorly planned, it's very poorly planned,” he said.

To this he added, for the construction of Station 13 Line 2 of the Lima MetroIt is the “meeting of Paseo Cologne and Wilson” that “cannot be closed.”

“There should always be two ways and if the dealership wanted to close it for two, seven or 20 years, if people close something they won't open it.”

For this reason, he promised that “another construction system” should be used for lines 3 and 4 “respecting Lima and the businesses”.

“Having a construction method that is no longer used in the world cannot bankrupt them. The galleries for the stations are built underground so that they don't have to interrupt the traffic even for a minute. They have already caused irreparable damage to Lima,” he concluded.

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In January this year, the Ministry of Transport and CommunicationsThe Urban Transport Authority for Lima and Cala (ATU) and Capital Commune reached an agreement to shorten the deadline and accelerate the works of line 2.

It was also possible to get approval for the commencement of works in this meeting Central station.

“As a result of these agreements, the company has to request municipal permits and the mayor's office has agreed to approve them. We are looking at how to reduce the time frame for the works, and to do so the company will be proposed to do it in three shifts instead of working in one shift,” the MTC president said at the time. Raul Perez-Reyes.

Last December, at the beginning of the White March Line 2 of the Lima MetroHe assured that the 27 stations planned for this project would be completed by 2028.

“Work is already underway and a good part of the disruption has been resolved, so what is left now is the remaining stations, apart from station 13 which has just started construction. They are already under construction and will be implemented with railway equipment later,” he said.

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