NewsWhore
08-10-2007, 06:30 PM
Optimism seems to be this administration's greatest strength as Diario Libre reports that the government's Office for the Reorganization of Transit (OPRET) is planning a radical restructuring of the transport sector. The new plan calls for the gradual elimination of the risky motoconcho (motorcycle taxis) and conchos (shared taxis) throughout the DR. The Office for the Reorganization of Transit proposes to purchase 1,000 minibuses to gradually replace the "conchos" through a credit program. Motoconchos would in turn be replaced by small electrical cars. The government will apply for funding from the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank and the Andean Development Corporation.
The plan would start in Santo Domingo and would take five years to execute in full. It would involve merging the government offices that deal with transport, and measures to encourage use of lower costing fuels such as natural gas and propane gas for transport.
The proposal would require transport unions to convert into legally organized companies. According to Juan Gabriel Cajiao, a consultant who has worked on OPRET's "National Transport Policy" study, the transport unions need to be regulated. The plan then calls for the creation of the National Transit and Transport Authority (AUTRAN), an umbrella organization under which other transport entities, such as OMSA, OTTT, OPRET, AMET and AMETRASAN would fall.
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The plan would start in Santo Domingo and would take five years to execute in full. It would involve merging the government offices that deal with transport, and measures to encourage use of lower costing fuels such as natural gas and propane gas for transport.
The proposal would require transport unions to convert into legally organized companies. According to Juan Gabriel Cajiao, a consultant who has worked on OPRET's "National Transport Policy" study, the transport unions need to be regulated. The plan then calls for the creation of the National Transit and Transport Authority (AUTRAN), an umbrella organization under which other transport entities, such as OMSA, OTTT, OPRET, AMET and AMETRASAN would fall.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#5)