In four years as much as 800 kilometers of roads, mostly rural and nonpaved, will be improved and rehabilitated, increasing the percentage or rural roads in reasonable condition from 36 percent to 45 percent. The percentage of collector roads in reasonable condition will be increased from 46 percent to 50 percent.
Collector roads combine with rural roads to form integrated production corridors.
The program will also finance studies on effective vehicle load and enforcement and on mechanisms for recovering maintenance costs, as well as on implementation of decentralized rural road maintenance run by the municipalities. The annual interest will be 1 percent during the grace period and 2 percent thereafter. Direcci n General de Vialidad Frente al Estadio Nacional Managua, Nicaragua Tel.