{"id":40267,"date":"2001-06-05T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2001-06-05T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/the-most-expensive-avenue-in-the-country\/"},"modified":"2001-06-05T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2001-06-05T01:43:56","slug":"the-most-expensive-avenue-in-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/06\/05\/the-most-expensive-avenue-in-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"The most expensive avenue in the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Siglo newspaper looks into the high cost of the Jacobo Majluta Avenue to Dominican taxpayers today. The government estimates it will cost RD$419.9 million to repair Jacobo Majluta Avenue on the north side of Santo Domingo. The avenue, was built during the 1994-1996 Balaguer administration at a cost of RD$300 million. Shortly after, major construction flaws were revealed. The Fernandez administration (1996-2000) invested RD$234.6 million more to repair it, bringing the total to RD$534.6 million. The repairs, though, were not completed and now the Mejia administration says another RD$419.9 million (allotted in the US$500 million sovereign bond package) are needed to finish the avenue. This brings the total cost of the 9.8 kilometer avenue to RD$954.5 million or more than RD$97 million per kilometer.  In addition, another RD$100 million has been invested in the access road to the La Isabela Airport off Jacobo Majluta Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Siglo newspaper looks into the high cost of the Jacobo Majluta Avenue to Dominican taxpayers today. The government estimates it will cost RD$419.9 million to repair Jacobo Majluta Avenue on the north side of Santo Domingo. The avenue, was built during the 1994-1996 Balaguer administration at a cost of RD$300 million. Shortly after, major &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/06\/05\/the-most-expensive-avenue-in-the-country\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}