The president said that the improvements represent “a substantial change” that will generate “economic development and prosperity.”
The President Luis Lacalle Pou inaugurated the works about the route 6, which involved an investment of 30 million dollars, and assured that this type of work “will enable the meeting between communities, will generate economic development and behind that development comes prosperity.”
In addition, Lacalle Pou considered that the improvement of 82 kilometers on route 6 and the construction of the Hospital del Cerro They are “emblematic” due to their importance to citizens, within the framework of a strong push to improve the connectivity.
“Since 2010 I have memory of talking about the justice of building Route 6, which was the great forgotten one in our country. It is a substantial change. It is no longer just for the productive theme, It is because of the children who go to school and even the family and daily ties,” he said.
Finally, he highlighted the salient data of his administration. “The government received the unemployment by more than 10%, more than 50,000 jobs had been destroyed, inflation was far from the target range and today inflation has not been so low for many years, real wage “It has grown in a good way, we have created more than 77,000 jobs, we have recovered the 50,000 that had been lost and luckily, the private sector, supported by the public sector, has created more jobs,” the president boasted.
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A record investment in works
He Minister of Transport and Public Works, José Luis Falero, He also highlighted the number of people present at the inauguration. “It is certainly not just any work, that is why there are so many people,” he said, and highlighted that the investment of the Executive in road infrastructure during his term “represents a record figure, which is documented in the “Accountability”.
Meanwhile, he anticipated that the works will continue in a third section, towards Caraguata and Vichadero, while work will also be carried out on the road to La Balsa, which will change jurisdiction from departmental to national.
“It is about managing the money of Uruguayans responsibly and efficiently,” said Falero and announced that in October the improvements on Route 19 will begin, from Sanz House until Chato Hill.
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Source: Ambito
