The national secretary of Transport and Urban Mobility, Dario Lopes, has affirmed this Thursday, during meeting with specialists and managers of public transport in Belo Horizonte, that the Minister of Cities shall ensure R$ 1.75 billion for the city metro works. Within the beginning of the second semester it shall be required to establish the financing model to the works, including how much every sector of the federation – federal, state and municipal governments – shall be responsible for investing in the works.
According to Dario Lopes, the amount ensured by the Ministry of Cities shall come from the Fund for Guaranteed Time of Service (FGTS). The first improvements shall be done on line 1, segment already existing which connects the station of Eldorado, in Contagem, to the station Vilarinho, in Venda Nova.
The Ministry of Cities, however, has not confirmed how the next steps of the works shall be. On the announcement made by president Dilma Rousseff (PT), in September 2011, the constructions of two new segments have been promised: line 2, which shall connect Barreiro area to Nova Suíça neighborhood, including a new station which shall be part of line 1; and line 3, which would connect Savassi to Lagoinha station. The works value has been estimated in R$ 3.1 billion.
At the beginning of the year, when took the State of Minas Gerais Office, the governor Fernando Pimentel (PT) has affirmed that the projects of the metro expansion would be reassessed and a popular consulting would be made in the cities surrounding the capital of the state in order to define which segments would be constructed. Last week, the secretary of State Treasury, José Afonso Bicalho, has affirmed that the state treasury does not have resources purposed to the metro works.
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