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01-29-2009, 06:00 PM
The Santo Domingo Metro will be inaugurated today with a ceremony at the Centro de los Heroes (La Feria) station at 5pm. President Leonel Fernandez and representatives from supplier companies in Europe and South America will attend, according to a press release from the Transport Reorganization Office (OPRET).
International guests include representatives from metros in European countries and from Colombia, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Brazil and Chile, said OPRET spokesman Leonel Carrasco. The commercial operations will definitely start tomorrow morning and go from 6am until 11pm, and according to the Opret plans, will work without any interruptions.
The service will begin with 19 trains in operation.
To use the Metro, commuters need to purchase a RD$30 card that has to be charged with a minimum of RD$20 pesos per ride and which can be loaded with as much as RD$1000.
According to Carrasco, "thousands and thousands" of these cards have already been sold. He estimates that 170,000 people will use the trains on a daily basis.
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International guests include representatives from metros in European countries and from Colombia, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Brazil and Chile, said OPRET spokesman Leonel Carrasco. The commercial operations will definitely start tomorrow morning and go from 6am until 11pm, and according to the Opret plans, will work without any interruptions.
The service will begin with 19 trains in operation.
To use the Metro, commuters need to purchase a RD$30 card that has to be charged with a minimum of RD$20 pesos per ride and which can be loaded with as much as RD$1000.
According to Carrasco, "thousands and thousands" of these cards have already been sold. He estimates that 170,000 people will use the trains on a daily basis.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)