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08-28-2009, 02:10 PM
Greater Santo Domingo is not the same. The city is suffering from an accelerated visual contamination that has forced the authorities to redesign their policy of municipal clean up. Diario Libre reports how informal merchants of clothes, food, fruits and other stuff, as well as scraped vehicles frequently takeover sidewalks, streets and avenues of the National District and the municipalities of Santo Domingo. Streets such as San Vicente de Paul, Duarte, Mella, and barrios like Villa Consuelo, Villa Juana, Ozama, Los Mina and others have been practically invaded by informal and ambulatory merchants, including stores and markets that offer their products on the sidewalks, blocking pedestrian traffic.
Recently, the Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET) has taken 255 junk vehicles off of the streets. The operation will be increased over the next few days, together with the municipalities and the Justice Department, to get the useless vehicles off of the streets and sidewalks. The scraped vehicles that are removed are taken to the Duquesa sanitary landfill.
The traffic and transit regulating authority has also opened a hotline (809 686 6520) for persons to lodge complaints regarding occupied public spaces.
The AMET is prohibiting the parking of cars and placement of vendors on congested Charles Sumner Avenue, between Winston Churchill and the Los Prados neighborhood. This measure will be applied to other congested streets in the capital over the coming days.
The Municipal government of the National District (ADN) has reached an agreement with car dealers to remove the sale of vehicles on sidewalks as part of a campaign to enforce cleaning up the National District. The ADN announced it would be identifying authorized mobile vendors in order to regulate their situation.
The mayor of North Santo Domingo, Jesus Feliz called the program a major challenge due to the burgeoning informal commercial activity on the streets. He said his people are carrying out a census of the non-regulated merchants in Villa Mella. He pointed out that the municipality has to get the mechanics that work on the sidewalks off the streets. A similar dilemma faces the municipalities of West and East Santo Domingo, both of which are working on plans to cope with the situation that has now gotten out of hand.
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Recently, the Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET) has taken 255 junk vehicles off of the streets. The operation will be increased over the next few days, together with the municipalities and the Justice Department, to get the useless vehicles off of the streets and sidewalks. The scraped vehicles that are removed are taken to the Duquesa sanitary landfill.
The traffic and transit regulating authority has also opened a hotline (809 686 6520) for persons to lodge complaints regarding occupied public spaces.
The AMET is prohibiting the parking of cars and placement of vendors on congested Charles Sumner Avenue, between Winston Churchill and the Los Prados neighborhood. This measure will be applied to other congested streets in the capital over the coming days.
The Municipal government of the National District (ADN) has reached an agreement with car dealers to remove the sale of vehicles on sidewalks as part of a campaign to enforce cleaning up the National District. The ADN announced it would be identifying authorized mobile vendors in order to regulate their situation.
The mayor of North Santo Domingo, Jesus Feliz called the program a major challenge due to the burgeoning informal commercial activity on the streets. He said his people are carrying out a census of the non-regulated merchants in Villa Mella. He pointed out that the municipality has to get the mechanics that work on the sidewalks off the streets. A similar dilemma faces the municipalities of West and East Santo Domingo, both of which are working on plans to cope with the situation that has now gotten out of hand.
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