Metro gets funds to finish line 2 by Xmas

The Santo Domingo Metro continues on schedule for a Christmas time opening of the first half of the second line. Leonel Carrasco, deputy director, said that the government has authorized a monthly allotment that will enable the train to open this year. But Carrasco was not able to reveal the total that will be received.

Carrasco also told the press that the magnetic cards would soon replace the plastic cards to expedite service.

Regarding the completion of the second line, he said that 36 of the 45 needed French Alstom Transport cars have arrived, some elevators need yet to be installed among other pending details.

Measuring 21 kilometers in length, the Line 2 of Santo Domingo metro will cross the city from east to west, connecting Los Alcarrizos to San Luis, with an interchange with Line 1 at Juan Pablo Duarte. But for the first phase, service will be from Km. 9 (intersection with Av. Gregorio Luperon) of Duarte highway under John F. Kennedy Avenue and Avenida Padre Castellanos on to the Francisco Rosario Sanchez Bridge (Puente de la 17), with the intercepting with the first line at the Juan Pablo Duarte (Av. Maximo Gomez) station. Line 2 will start with 14 stations, on a westward track until the San Martin station where it will take a northern track to cross the Ozama River.

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