PE LIMA TRANSPORT PROJECT

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The main objective of the project is to assist the Municipality of Metropolitan Lima (MML) in enhancing the economic productivity and the quality of life within the Lima Metropolitan area through improving mobility and accessibility for the metropolitan population. The project has the following six components: Component 1) comprises primarily infrastructure works to implement the busways along existing road corridors: (i) construction of 28.6 km of segregated busways; (ii) repaving of mixed-traffic lanes adjacent to the new busways; (iii) traffic signal improvements, signposting and road markings along the corridors; (iv) bus stations and terminals; (v) bus depots and workshops; (vi) control center; (vii) paving and other improvement of feeder roads to the two bus terminals; (viii) road safety measures along the corridors, its feeder roads, and the streets in its area of direct influence; and (ix) improvements to pedestrian and vehicular corridors, pedestrians and busway users. Component 2) comprises three activity areas: (i) community consultation and education; (ii) mitigation of the negative impacts on some current bus operators; and (iii) financial support during the initial months of busway operations. Component 3) addresses the regulatory, monitoring, and control functions of urban public transport and supports: (i) the development and implementation of a public transport policy, including its regulatory and policy-setting framework, as well as its administration, operation, monitoring and control; (ii) the formal creation, technical assistance and training of PROTRANSPORTE, the entity responsible for implementing the busway operations; (iii) technical assistance and training of EMAPE, the entity responsible for implementing the physical works under the Project; (iii) technical assistance and training of DMTU and the national police; and (iv) monitoring and evaluation of the busway operation and the Project. Component 4) this includes (i) supervision of the physical works described above; and (ii) economic feasibility and environmental studies as well as the preparation final engineering designs to expand the busway network beyond the 28.6 km funded by the Project. Component 5) this component, entirely to be financed from counterpart funds, includes the operational expenses of the institutions responsible for administering the Project and for implementing the busway operations. Component 6) later in 2003, MML will initiate the re-construction at the Plaza Grau, one of Lima's busiest intersections and a key node of the busway to be financed under the Project.