We will be happy to provide you with all the details of the new highway once you complete the trip report you started in this thread:
Just kidding......the new job must be keeping you busy!
I have not taken the new highway yet myself, but my friend who lives here has. He says the new "Super Autopista" opened a few months ago and and connects Santo Domingo with Nagua. The toll for passenger cars is 300 DR pesos (around $9US). In Nagua, it connects with Highway 5. If you head east on highway 5, you'll end up in Samana. If you head west from Nagua, you'll pass thru Rio San Juan, Cabarete, Sosua, Puerto Plata, etc.
My friend says that using this new "Super Autopista" he can make it from his house in Cabarete to Santo Domingo in 2.5 hours.
By contrast, the last time I was in Santo Domingo we drove non-stop to La Union (between Sosua and Puerto Plata) in 3 hours and 15 minutes via Highway 1 to Santiago, and then the "Mountain Shortcut" that rejoins Highway 5 in Monte Llano. The toll on Highway 1 was 30 pesos (less than $1US).
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