Information was released this Thursday (23), by the Minister of Transport, Renan Filho, who confirmed the approval of the project portfolio by President Lula
The Brazilian government is about to present a national plan aimed at developing the railway sector, with launch scheduled for the first half of February. The information was released by the Minister of Transport, who confirmed the approval of the project portfolio by the president. “I had a first conversation with President Lula, presenting him the project portfolio. The president approved it and we are organizing to launch it in the first days of February. In the first fortnight of February”, said the minister, in an interview with radio stations, on the program Bom Dia, Ministro, from Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC).
The minister highlighted that modernizing the railway system is a complex challenge, which requires substantial investment from the government. “You arrive in São Paulo, the MRS train, loaded with ore, passes through the center, next to the market. A railway passes there. That is incongruous with a city the size of São Paulo. We increasingly need to review this.”
“You can’t change completely because they [as ferrovias] They were built at a different time, they make a lot of curves and, with these curves, you can’t increase speed. If it doesn’t have speed, it won’t compete with buses, trucks and vans. It’s a complex job, it requires heavy, massive public investment”, he concluded.
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Published by Fernando Dias
