RETURN of $20 Billion RAPID RAIL says Dr Rowley ..by far the best PNM commitment I have yet heard-much needed as part of an integrated transport system. The rapid rail service, linking the East-West Corridor, will be resurrected under a PNM government, party leader Keith Rowley There are very few options to build highways through the East-West Corridor, where half the population lives,” he said, “but if we build a rapid transit system from Diego Martin to Sangre Grande and a T-junction going to La Romaine, it can become an economic backbone where you can move on a scheduled service and the rest of the countrys transport can feed off that backbone.” He said a rail journey from Sangre Grande to Port-of-Spain would take 45 minutes and would allow citizens to live in the East and work or study in the West (and vice versa) without having to spend hours in traffic jams. The proposed rail network would be subject to a feasibility review first, and if agreed it would take ten years to build and cost $20 billion. But Rowley said the cost would be minimal in comparison to the “$4 billion we waste each year in fuel subsidies,”
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 23:32:24 +0000