Of the $ 4.5 billion forecast, only $ 3.8 billion had been invested so far
Five years after assuming the administration of the seven federal highways, auctioned the first concession auction of the Lula government, with bold moves and tolls minimum of $ 0.99, the companies have failed to complete all the required investments in the bidding process. A survey conducted by the state shows that, on average, almost 20% of the amount for improving the conditions of the roads in the first five years of the concession was not applied.
The work was based on the bidding documents of 2007, which contained the values €‹€‹of investments defined by ANTT (National Land Transport). The amount - adjusted for inflation by the year 2007 only provided for each investment - was compared with the values €‹€‹reported by the utilities run by Spanish Arteris (former OHL); highway Steel, Acciona, and Transbrasiliana, the BRVias.
Excluding the data from Steel highway (BR-393), which reported only the numbers by 2011, the volume of investments should have been R $ 4.5 billion. But so far, only $ 3.8 billion were invested. Investments related to the projects still have not been updated to current values. That is, the difference may be even greater considering current prices.
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The granting of the seven roads was a milestone in the Lula government. First because it represented a paradigm shift in the PT government opposed to privatization. Second, because it could dramatically reduce the amounts of tolls compared with the administration of FHC.
Professor at Funda§o Dom Cabral, Paulo Resende, ponders the low values.
- But, toll so low, or if seeking contractual amendments or postpone works. The result is the loss of quality of services.
He's right. Priority works - and millionaires - the concessions of 2007 have not even been initiated, such as the duplication of the central part of Cafezal Serra in Sao Paulo; outline of Florianpolis, Santa Catarina, and the doubling of Border Avenue in Rio de Janeiro. Worse, even the smaller works were made, but the quality of the roads still raising questions in motorists that travel the roads.
The arguments for the delays are varied. Go barriers in licensing, changes in projects by divergence of society, problems of expropriation of areas and difficulty removing power grids and water mains on construction sites, according to the superintendent of the highway infrastructure ANTT, Viviane This.
- There was a very low contract enforcement and went to check what was happening. We decided to do a monthly monitoring of works with utilities.
According to the superintendent of the agency, in addition to great works, other smaller but relevant to the operation of the highway, also took out the paper. In Transbrasiliana, shamrocks and stretches of the highway duplication took to be completed. On the highway Steel, by 2011, only 81% of the investments had been finalized.
Five years after assuming the administration of the seven federal highways, auctioned the first concession auction of the Lula government, with bold moves and tolls minimum of $ 0.99, the companies have failed to complete all the required investments in the bidding process. A survey conducted by the state shows that, on average, almost 20% of the amount for improving the conditions of the roads in the first five years of the concession was not applied.
The work was based on the bidding documents of 2007, which contained the values €‹€‹of investments defined by ANTT (National Land Transport). The amount - adjusted for inflation by the year 2007 only provided for each investment - was compared with the values €‹€‹reported by the utilities run by Spanish Arteris (former OHL); highway Steel, Acciona, and Transbrasiliana, the BRVias.
Excluding the data from Steel highway (BR-393), which reported only the numbers by 2011, the volume of investments should have been R $ 4.5 billion. But so far, only $ 3.8 billion were invested. Investments related to the projects still have not been updated to current values. That is, the difference may be even greater considering current prices.
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More news from Brazil
The granting of the seven roads was a milestone in the Lula government. First because it represented a paradigm shift in the PT government opposed to privatization. Second, because it could dramatically reduce the amounts of tolls compared with the administration of FHC.
Professor at Funda§o Dom Cabral, Paulo Resende, ponders the low values.
- But, toll so low, or if seeking contractual amendments or postpone works. The result is the loss of quality of services.
He's right. Priority works - and millionaires - the concessions of 2007 have not even been initiated, such as the duplication of the central part of Cafezal Serra in Sao Paulo; outline of Florianpolis, Santa Catarina, and the doubling of Border Avenue in Rio de Janeiro. Worse, even the smaller works were made, but the quality of the roads still raising questions in motorists that travel the roads.
The arguments for the delays are varied. Go barriers in licensing, changes in projects by divergence of society, problems of expropriation of areas and difficulty removing power grids and water mains on construction sites, according to the superintendent of the highway infrastructure ANTT, Viviane This.
- There was a very low contract enforcement and went to check what was happening. We decided to do a monthly monitoring of works with utilities.
According to the superintendent of the agency, in addition to great works, other smaller but relevant to the operation of the highway, also took out the paper. In Transbrasiliana, shamrocks and stretches of the highway duplication took to be completed. On the highway Steel, by 2011, only 81% of the investments had been finalized.