Metro accountability

[NewsWhore]

As the Santo Domingo Metro project advances, usurping public funds, the chorus of naysayers and supporters continues to grow. Hoy newspaper page two columnist points out today that just because the project is moving ahead regardless of public opinion and controversy does not mean that the public should cease asking pertinent questions and demanding explanations when it is necessary? Today's "Que se dice" column in Hoy says that even if politicians and constructors are ignoring these criticisms, this doesn't mean that the public should stop asking for explanations for the project. The column refers to a report by geologist Osiris de Leon. De Leon explained that the Villa Mella viaduct cost an additional RD$500 million because the proper preliminary geological research had not been carried out to determine the ground's resistance. Although this and other criticisms have fallen on deaf ears, the columnist stresses that this and other comments should not be ignored. The columnist also observes that Diandino Pena and President Leonel Fernandez seem to have forgotten that the Metro is being built with citizens' taxes.

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