NewsWhore
10-19-2007, 04:20 PM
The prospect of earning an extra RD$1,000 per month is enough to lead drivers in the DR to wait in long lines, causing head-bruising traffic jams. The PLD has begun a campaign of paying drivers RD$1,000 to place posters on their vehicles advertising President Leonel Fernandez's re-election aspirations. Large numbers of car owners are taking the President up on the offer. This has caused more than the usual traffic jams around the Catholic University of Santo Domingo. In some cases drivers chose to go the wrong way on one-way streets to reach their destination and transit officials seem powerless to control the traffic. Hoy writes that the lines began yesterday around 6am and jammed traffic on Abraham Lincoln, Bolivar, Alma Mater and 27 de Febrero avenues.
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