Traffic lights in capital don't work

[NewsWhore]

Dozens of traffic lights out of service and the lack of electricity have made it very difficult to get round Santo Domingo, risking life and limb for drivers and pedestrians alike. Major intersections lack this form of automatic traffic control because the lights are damaged, and to this one must add the lack of electricity that, according to the report in El Caribe, is a constant in daily life. Among the places in Santo Domingo where the lights are damaged are 30 de Marzo and 27 de Febrero, 27 de Febrero and Barahona, Mella and Jose Reyes, Mella and 19 de Marzo, Benito Gonzalez and Jose Marti, Mexico and Jose Marti, and Jacinto de la Concha and Mexico, among others. In Santo Domingo East, the intersections of Jose Cabrera and Venezuela, Presidente Vasquez and Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Sabana Larga, among the busiest in that part of the city, are without service. During a trip around Santo Domingo by El Caribe reporters, most of the traffic lights were not working. The traffic light at the corner of Josefa Brea and 27 de Febrero has not been in service for more than five years, and no one has ever done anything about it. According to residents, people have been injured when trying to cross the street. According to one "motoconcho" driver, "that light has not worked for six years, and every day there is an accident, and the light pole that holds the light up is hit by vehicles quite often. The other day a man trying to cross the street was struck and killed." Driver Eliseo de la Rosa said "no AMET agents are ever seen at the intersection when children come out of school, and they should be here."

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