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07-17-2012, 05:20 PM
People will have to unlearn driving in Santo Domingo once new dispositions planned to expedite traffic go into effect in August as planned. The city government of Santo Domingo seeks to be able to implement a yet-to-be-approved plan to improve the flow of traffic in the city by eliminating many left turns on leading thoroughfares. The traffic reorganization study was prepared by the Brazilian engineering firm, Norberto Odebrecht, which has built many overpasses and underpasses in the city to expedite traffic. The plan needs to be okayed by city councilors prior to its implementation.
The proposal calls for bans on left turns at the intersections of 27 de Febrero and Nunez de Caceres, 27 de Febrero and Maximo Gomez, and John F. Kennedy and Maximo Gomez. Likewise, all left turns on the 27 de Febrero up to Dr. Fernando Defillo street would be banned.
East-south and west-north turns on 27 de Febrero with Tiradentes would no longer be accepted. Left turns from John F. Kennedy to Jose Ortega would no longer be allowed in the east-south and west-north directions.
It also contemplates carving a south-north lane to the Avenida Jose Ortega y Gasset, into the broad sidewalk of the Olympic Center. This would allow for two express lanes (north-south) and one turning from north-west along Ortega y Gasset. Odebrecht recently completed a tunnel that is today the fastest north-south connection in the city.
The Odebrecht plan also calls for restricting to one way traffic the stretch between John F. Kennedy and Charles Sumner by Dr. Fernando Defillo, in the north-south direction. The Jose Contreras avenue stretch between Maximo Gomez and Pedro Ignacio Espaillat would only allow west-east transit. Calle Gardenia would also be converted into one way, south-north, at the stretch between John F. Kennedy and Calle Central.
Lope de Vega would also become a one way avenue between Abraham Lincoln avenue and Porfirio Herrera street. The traffic light at Lope de Vega and Abraham Lincoln would be eliminated. Parking on Porfirio Herrera would be banned, and a traffic light would be placed at Abraham Lincoln with Porfirio Herrera. The regulations also closed for closing off the intersection of Lope de Vega with Abraham Lincoln, by continuing the central traffic divider at Lincoln.
http://www.listin.com.do/la-republica/2012/7/17/240097/Autoridades-procuran-evitar-giros-y-cambiar-sentido-a-varias-calles
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The proposal calls for bans on left turns at the intersections of 27 de Febrero and Nunez de Caceres, 27 de Febrero and Maximo Gomez, and John F. Kennedy and Maximo Gomez. Likewise, all left turns on the 27 de Febrero up to Dr. Fernando Defillo street would be banned.
East-south and west-north turns on 27 de Febrero with Tiradentes would no longer be accepted. Left turns from John F. Kennedy to Jose Ortega would no longer be allowed in the east-south and west-north directions.
It also contemplates carving a south-north lane to the Avenida Jose Ortega y Gasset, into the broad sidewalk of the Olympic Center. This would allow for two express lanes (north-south) and one turning from north-west along Ortega y Gasset. Odebrecht recently completed a tunnel that is today the fastest north-south connection in the city.
The Odebrecht plan also calls for restricting to one way traffic the stretch between John F. Kennedy and Charles Sumner by Dr. Fernando Defillo, in the north-south direction. The Jose Contreras avenue stretch between Maximo Gomez and Pedro Ignacio Espaillat would only allow west-east transit. Calle Gardenia would also be converted into one way, south-north, at the stretch between John F. Kennedy and Calle Central.
Lope de Vega would also become a one way avenue between Abraham Lincoln avenue and Porfirio Herrera street. The traffic light at Lope de Vega and Abraham Lincoln would be eliminated. Parking on Porfirio Herrera would be banned, and a traffic light would be placed at Abraham Lincoln with Porfirio Herrera. The regulations also closed for closing off the intersection of Lope de Vega with Abraham Lincoln, by continuing the central traffic divider at Lincoln.
http://www.listin.com.do/la-republica/2012/7/17/240097/Autoridades-procuran-evitar-giros-y-cambiar-sentido-a-varias-calles
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#1)