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ROADS
Highways are the pride of the country. The country
has 6,500 km of roads half of them being totally
paved. It has a modern infrastructure that makes El
Salvador the country with the most advanced roads
in the region. FOVIAL (Road Conservation Fund)
is the institution in charge of its conservation and
maintenance.
Currently, the North Longitudinal Highway is
under construction with funds from the Millennium
Challenge Account.
TRAIN
Despite its long history, El Salvador, only has one
passenger train line. On March 28, 1882, 128
years ago, at the old port of Acajutla, arriving from
England, the locomotives that would give life to the
most innovative transportation means of the XIX
century, the railroad, were unloaded.
It was on June 4, 1882 that President Rafael Zaldivar
officially inaugurated the railroad service with the
arrival in Sonsonate of the first locomotive driving
a convoy of passengers and cargo. From there on,
Sonsonate was a mandatory stop for cargo and
passenger movement that came to the country from
Acajutla destined to the capital city.
El Salvador National Airport (CEPA)
Little traffic jam in the motorway
In 1975 the existing rail companies merged under
the name of Ferrocarriles Nacionales de El Salvador
(FENADESAL) - National Railways of El Salvador.
The Comisión Ejecutiva Portuaria Autónoma (CEPA)
through Ferrocarriles Nacionales de El Salvador
(FENADESAL) provide train transportation service
to the city’s population, which throughout the last
year has benefited at least 224,727 people who used
the train. FENADESAL’s Passenger Train makes
one daily round-trip service leaving San Salvador
train station going through Ciudad Delgado to reach
the municipality of Apopa and vice versa.
There are no cargo trains. A future project is the
creation of a high speed intermodal train to connect
San Salvador with neighboring countries, competing
with air transportation.