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11-26-2008, 02:50 PM
The operation of the first 14-km line of the Santo Domingo Metro, an underground and elevated rail system, has not yet received international certification and still has no definite date for opening. Officials have said that the Metro would be open for November, but the date was then pushed back so that it could be open for the holiday season. According to El Caribe, without these international permits the Transport Reorganization Office (OPRET) cannot officially open the Metro to the public. According to El Caribe, OPRET should have secured the permit by the end of October and would have then gone through with a 'dry run' of the trains without passengers on board. But the trial has yet to happen, in part because to complete such a trial OPRET needs all 57 cars. Only 36 of the cars have arrived. Eighteen of the remaining cars should have been delivered by November. Once up and running, the Metro is expected to employ 3,000 people. The first line of the Santo Domingo Metro will operate from Villa Mella in the municipality of Santo Domingo Norte down Maximo Gomez Avenue, with a turn west to the state university and then continuing under Correa y Cidron Avenue to end at the Centro de los Heroes government building area, off Independencia Avenue.
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