Among the plans to improve the Caracas Metro, it is planned to incorporate two recovered trains every 45 days, but for this, the representatives of the system requested more personnel to achieve this goal. Nicolás Maduro demanded results within five months
President Nicolás Maduro presented this Thursday, September 1, “the Metro Plan moves with you” with which the goal was to improve the operation of this transport system through which 2.8 million people pass daily. These works begin after years of disinvestment that led the underground to have serious operational problems, with trains out of circulation, without air conditioning, paralyzed escalators and even insecurity.
“Today a special plan begins to make the Caracas Metro the best metro system in the world and we are going to achieve it,” he said.
The Maduro administration approved $150 million to finance work on the transportation system, as well as $16 million for investment in rail. To this end, the National Investment Fund for Transportation will be created. Given what the Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) has sold in foreign currency to banks to contain the rise in the exchange rate (in just one week it can offer up to 200 million dollars), the resources allocated to the Metro seem few for the recovery of the system.
Among the plans, it is planned to incorporate two recovered trains every 45 days, but for this, the representatives of the system requested more personnel to achieve this goal. In this regard, it was reported that Engineering personnel from the National Armed Forces join the train recovery plan. However, Maduro ordered the recovery of 10 trains every 45 days.
“It is the workers who maintain this service despite the sanctions, the financial persecution, the prohibition on buying spare parts abroad, despite the blocking of the freezing of bank accounts,” said the president.
Likewise, the recovery of the 48 stations that make up the four lines of the system is proposed, for which Maduro demanded results within a period of five months. It was reported that 69 User Committees, together with the workers of the Caracas SubwayThey carried out the cleaning work. «To take care of the Metro, to protect it, to beautify it».
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During the event, Maduro attacked the leader of the opposition party Primero Justicia, Roberto Patiño, who has presented plans for the recovery of the Metro system.
“He is a criminal, linked to terrorist attacks on public services, named Roberto Patiño Guinand, little known but who is promoting terrorist attacks in the shadows of the conspiracy,” he said through the state channel VTV in a live broadcast that had Various technical flaws.
In his opinion, Patiño together with the leader of the PJ, Julio Borges, are responsible for the deterioration of the subway for allegedly having requested sanctions against his government.
«On February 20, 2019, this Roberto Patiño Guinand together with Julio Borges toured Europe to request a blockade and sanctions against Venezuela, and from then on the sale of spare parts to the Caracas Metro was prohibited, and then they come now in 2022, as executioners, to see the result of their actions. There it is,” said Maduro, who forgot that the deterioration of the system began long before the sanctions.
Security operation for the Metro
The Minister of Interior Relations, Justice and Peace, Admiral in Chief Remigio Ceballos, reported earlier that an operation carried out in the Caracas Metro stopped 58 people for incurring crimes, four firearms and five facsimiles were seized, four telephones were also recovered that had been stolen.
He stressed that during the day carried out by the authorities, it was possible to raise awareness among 2,385 citizens who did not comply with the internal regulations of this transport system.
“We maintain the deployment of 1,100 police officers and the risk management system, to bring all criminals to justice and guarantee the tranquility of the people in the Caracas Metro,” he wrote on his Twitter account.
Regarding the informal vendors who travel daily through the subway cars, Maduro said that they should be relocated to centers or markets such as La Hoyada and Petare, or in squares and boulevards near the system. “You should talk to them to remind them that they are breaking the rules, without repression.”
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