Mercopress, 10/18/2011
Porto Alegre and Curitiba will have their first metro lines with federal aid
President Dilma Rousseff said Monday that her administration plans to invest 30 billion Reais (17 billion dollars) in urban transportation projects across Brazil.
The plan envisions expanding existing metro networks and building new ones, as well as establishing bus lanes, light rail systems and multimodal transport hubs, the president said on her weekly radio program.
She did not specify how much of the 30-billion-Reais figure corresponds to new projects and how much to programs already included in the budget.
Brazil Portal 