$2 billion to go to update transport
From Times Wire Reports
Cuba will spend more than $2 billion over five years to upgrade its dilapidated public transportation system.
The Communist Party newspaper Granma quoted Transportation Minister Jorge Luis Sierra as saying the improvements include adding 1,500 buses to the fleet.
Other plans include extensive repairs to the potholed main highways across the Caribbean island and the addition of more than 1,000 taxis to urban streets in the coming year.
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