How to reduce traffic congestion transit in the city, the Mayor of the National Districtthe National Institute of Transit and Land Transport (Intrant) and the General Security Directorate of Transit and Land Transport (digestett) signed this Wednesday an agreement to start on Monday the 26th of this month the plan “Park Well” that seeks only to allow parking lots on the right in some already identified areas.
As of that date, vehicles that park in prohibited areas will be towed in principle by six cranes, to Tiradentes avenue number 17, work that will be in charge of the Association of Managers of Parking lots and Mobility (Agemov).
In principle, the pilot project will be applied in 13 streets of the central polygon, but it will continue to be developed to other areas until the National District is completed and continue to the municipalities of the Santo Domingo province.
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In its first stage, the pilot “park well” will cover the streets: Poncio Sabater, Francisco Carias Lavandier, Respaldo 22, José Amado Soler, Calle 5, Pablo Casals, Manuel Henríquez, Boy Scout, Jacinto Mañón, Del Seminario, Fernando Escobar, Filomena Gómez de Coba and Calle Z.
There was Beras, director of the Intrantsaid that it is an initiative that the Mayor’s Office had been working on for a long time together with the Intrant and the digestett for rearrangement of roads in the city and recalled that the penalty established by Law 63-17 of transit and ground transportation.
He clarified that the objective is not to take the vehicles and issue fines, but to make people respect the law and not park in prohibited places. He thanked the mayor Carolina Mejia the support you have offered to organize the transit in the streets of the city.
“No parking is like one of the invisible signs here, it’s there, but people don’t care.. The decision has already been made and we thank the digestettto General Guzmán Peralta for all the collaboration and for the effort he is putting with the team, the companies, with us, the Mayor’s Office and the private sector,” he explained.
Carolina Mejia He indicated that more than a year ago he submitted to the Council of Regidores a project so that the central polygon would have one-way streets and parking would be allowed only on the right in the direction of that road.
He stated that a series of needs were identified to start the pilot “park well” and start the plan quickly and see which of the streets that are already one way in the central polygon that have parking lots parallels.
“What we are trying to do here is that we respect both horizontal and vertical signage and we, as authorities, make sure they are complied with and generate that consequence regime so that people understand that they should not do it, the objective is not to generate the fine, it is to generate citizen awareness”, raised the mayor.
While the director of digestettGeneral Ramón Antonio Guzmán Peralta, said that drivers must observe the signs before parking so that they are not inspected as will be done in compliance with Law 63-17.
“As of Monday the 26th we will begin to move all the vehicles that are parked in prohibited areas” and warned that to remove the vehicles, the owners will have to meet certain requirements.
