{"id":44639,"date":"2019-10-02T11:09:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T03:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44639"},"modified":"2019-10-02T11:48:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T03:48:52","slug":"european-bank-to-fund-public-transport-project-in-lebanons-tripoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44639","title":{"rendered":"European Bank To Fund Public Transport Project In Lebanon&#8217;s Tripoli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Oct 2 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; The European Investment Bank, announced that, it will fund the public transport project, for Lebanon&#8217;s northern city of Tripoli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The bank is ready to finance the project, as a basic need to solve the traffic crisis in Tripoli, in addition to finalising the railway studies, for building a railway from Beirut to Tripoli,&#8221; the bank&#8217;s delegation said, during its meeting with Lebanese Public Works and Transport Minister, Youssef Fenianos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bank will fund the building of a complete network inside Tripoli and its suburbs, including the establishment of a major passenger terminal, at the southern entrance of the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bank will also purchase buses and create an information technology system, to manage the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanon lacks a sustainable and efficient transport system and infrastructure, causing a traffic crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The absence of serious plans to improve public transportation has weighed heavily on Lebanon&#8217;s economy in the past years.&#8211; NNN-NNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Oct 2 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; The European Investment Bank, announced that, it will fund the public transport project, for Lebanon&#8217;s northern city of Tripoli. &#8220;The bank is ready to finance the project, as a basic need to solve the traffic crisis in Tripoli, in addition to finalising the railway studies, for building a railway from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":44654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,286,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44639"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}