With a year to go before the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics, work continues on the vital Transolimpica tunnel as officials inspected the construction’s progress.
The £1.6 billion project is a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) expressway through the Engenho Velho mountain to connect the athletes’ village and Olympic Park in Barra to the X Park in Deodoro.
The inspection comes as recent reports overseeing the route construction have indicated that the project is at “high risk” of not being ready for next year, according to last month’s Bloomberg report.
Speaking on the subway construction site that is to be part of the Olympic Games legacy, Rio’s state governor Luiz Fernando Pezao had to defend the city from another potentially broken pledge as the £2 billion clean-up operation on Guanabara Bay has not also not neared completion.
As part of Brazil’s Olympic project, authorities pledged more than six years ago to drastically cut the amount of raw human sewage in the bay before the 2016 Games.
But only one of the eight promised treatment plants aimed at filtering much of the waste out of the rivers that have become open-air sewage ditches has been built, and the bay’s once-crystalline waters remain fetid.
Bron: Telegraph.co.uk
