Government of Bolivia reaches agreement for Yellow Line of Cochabamba Train

Statement from the Ministry of Public Works, Services and Housing

This is a machine translation of the original press release issued in Spanish

The Minister of Public Works, Services and Housing, Edgar Montaño, after holding a meeting this Thursday with the Mayor of Cochabamba , Manfred Reyes Villa; reported that the layout proposed by the Bolivian Society of Engineers (SIB), which will be along the edge of the Rocha river through an elevated platform, was agreed by the Cochabamba commune.

"We want to announce the acceptance of the mayor, Manfred Reyes Villa, that the line of the Yellow line will be along the route that has shown the most technical coherence and friendliest with the environment," said the Minister, mentioning that the team of the Technical Unit of Railways (UTF), the construction company Asociacion Accidental Tunari and the SIB, through their representatives at the departmental and national levels.

He highlighted that the Metropolitan Train project is executed with resources from the national government, with a budget allocation of more than 3,112 million Bs.

On the yellow line, which will be along the edge of the Rocha River through an elevated platform, more than 417 million Bs will be allocated, an important contribution to the economic reconstruction of Cochabamba and all of Bolivia.

"Here technical and environmental reasons prevailed and we want to say to the whole of society, we are the government of consensus, we are the ministry of consensus," Montaño said.

He mentioned that, in the case of the Yellow line, the trees in the sector will not be affected, on the contrary, it is planned to improve the area.