NewsWhore
04-16-2012, 03:30 PM
Leonel Carrasco, the deputy director of OPRET, the office in charge of the Metro, estimates that about half a million people will take the second line of the metro to the 15th Santo Domingo Book Fair that opens Wednesday, 18 April. He announced that four stations of the second line would be open for free travel on the rapid transit system for the duration of the fair (18 April to 6 May).
Passengers using the Duarte-JF Kennedy line will be able to transfer to the Maximo Gomez line at the Olympic Center for entering the book fair grounds. The second line of the Santo Domingo Metro runs from east to west. The first was primarily a north-south connection.
Carrasco says that four stations of the planned 14 stations of the 24km line will be used. The first six of 45 metro cars for the line arrived just last week. Carrasco said the Alstom-brand three car trainsets cost EUR78 million.
The boarding stations are at Km. 9 of Duarte Highway (Maria Montez), Ave Winston Churchill (Pedro Mir), for transfer at the Olympic Center (Juan Pablo Duarte) to the first line that travels below Maximo Gomez Ave to exit at the National Theater and enter the fair grounds. Also from the east at Josefa Brea (at the extreme of Francisco del Rosario Sanchez n Puente de la 17 - Bridge) at the Padre Castellanos intersection, and La Normal for transfer to the same first line at the Olympic Center station.
The schedule will be Wednesday 18 April from 6pm to 9pm, and then on the remaining days from 9 to 11am and from 3pm to 9pm. The test will be from 18 April to 6 May, the days of the fair.
The first line was inaugurated on 30 January 2009. The second line is expected to be in operation by the end of the year.
Carrasco also announced that the first 50 minibuses for feeder routes with capacity for 35 passengers have been imported and will soon be in operation in Sabana Perdida, La Victoria, Los Guaricanos and Punta in Villa Mella.
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Passengers using the Duarte-JF Kennedy line will be able to transfer to the Maximo Gomez line at the Olympic Center for entering the book fair grounds. The second line of the Santo Domingo Metro runs from east to west. The first was primarily a north-south connection.
Carrasco says that four stations of the planned 14 stations of the 24km line will be used. The first six of 45 metro cars for the line arrived just last week. Carrasco said the Alstom-brand three car trainsets cost EUR78 million.
The boarding stations are at Km. 9 of Duarte Highway (Maria Montez), Ave Winston Churchill (Pedro Mir), for transfer at the Olympic Center (Juan Pablo Duarte) to the first line that travels below Maximo Gomez Ave to exit at the National Theater and enter the fair grounds. Also from the east at Josefa Brea (at the extreme of Francisco del Rosario Sanchez n Puente de la 17 - Bridge) at the Padre Castellanos intersection, and La Normal for transfer to the same first line at the Olympic Center station.
The schedule will be Wednesday 18 April from 6pm to 9pm, and then on the remaining days from 9 to 11am and from 3pm to 9pm. The test will be from 18 April to 6 May, the days of the fair.
The first line was inaugurated on 30 January 2009. The second line is expected to be in operation by the end of the year.
Carrasco also announced that the first 50 minibuses for feeder routes with capacity for 35 passengers have been imported and will soon be in operation in Sabana Perdida, La Victoria, Los Guaricanos and Punta in Villa Mella.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#3)