Metro in December?

[NewsWhore]

Rafael Serrano, sub-director of the Transport Reorganization Office (OPRET), has announced that the Metro would open to the public sometime in December. Serrano made the announcement at the close of a training program for 134 of the more than 400-person Metro security staff. He expressed optimism that the Metro will run in time for Dominicans to ride the system during the holiday season. Nevertheless, last week that it was reported the Metro had not yet received international certification. According to El Caribe, without these international permits the Transport Reorganization Office (OPRET) cannot officially start running the Metro. According to El Caribe, OPRET should have secured the permits by the end of October and would have then gone through with a 'dry run' of the trains without passengers on board. To complete the trial OPRET needs all 57 cars. Only 36 of the cars have arrived. Eighteen of the remaining cars should have been delivered by November.

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