NewsWhore
06-09-2010, 07:30 PM
Having to get up an hour earlier than usual is what most students and employees have to do of late. Why? Because of the lengthy traffic jams now affecting central Santo Domingo. As reported in El Caribe, Ernestina Gonzalez lives in Mendoza, in Santo Domingo East, and she works in an office in downtown Santo Domingo. As a result of the traffic jams, she needs to leave her house at 6am to get to her job on time.
The series of "conchos", OMSA buses and "voladoras" that used to take just 30 minutes to arrive, are now taking two hours because of the difficulty of moving through the traffic. Another employee, Elias Montano, lives in Manoguayabo and works on Leopoldo Navarro Street. The 14-kilometer commute now takes him 1.5 hours because of the bottlenecks at Nicolas de Ovando, Pedro Livio Cedeno, John F. Kennedy and the traffic light at San Martin Ave. "The noise and fumes are enough to drive anyone crazy, but this is how we earn our daily bread, and we have to get used to it", said Montano.
Traffic in Santo Domingo has worsened now that the government has added the construction of the second line of the Metro to construction works on part of the Duarte Corridor plan for tunnels and overpasses on the north-south connections for the city.
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The series of "conchos", OMSA buses and "voladoras" that used to take just 30 minutes to arrive, are now taking two hours because of the difficulty of moving through the traffic. Another employee, Elias Montano, lives in Manoguayabo and works on Leopoldo Navarro Street. The 14-kilometer commute now takes him 1.5 hours because of the bottlenecks at Nicolas de Ovando, Pedro Livio Cedeno, John F. Kennedy and the traffic light at San Martin Ave. "The noise and fumes are enough to drive anyone crazy, but this is how we earn our daily bread, and we have to get used to it", said Montano.
Traffic in Santo Domingo has worsened now that the government has added the construction of the second line of the Metro to construction works on part of the Duarte Corridor plan for tunnels and overpasses on the north-south connections for the city.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#10)