Starting next month, the nationwide traffic light system will be managed by the National Institute of Transit and Land Transportation (Intrant)after the authorities withdrew this responsibility from a private company, which managed said signaling equipment and which was identified in relation to an alleged sabotage that caused a blackout in a large part of the city.
The announcement was made this Wednesday by Milton Morrison, director of Intrant, during the weekly lunch of the Corripio Media Group.
Morrison explained that in the coming days Intrant will put into operation its own traffic light control center throughout the country, and that they are working with internal resources to carry out this initiative.
Likewise, he indicated that devices that have not yet been integrated into the system are currently being synchronized. “These measures will optimize vehicle flow nationwide. The most critical intersections have already been studied, modeled and identified,” he stated.
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Last month, the Public Ministry carried out Operation Chameleon, in which the former director of Intrant, Hugo Beras, and José Ángel (Jochi) Gómez, one of the main shareholders of Transcore Latam, a company that had won the tender for the traffic lights in Greater Santo Domingo.
These arrests revealed that a part of the traffic lights was not under the complete control of the Dominican State, but in the hands of this company. In addition, it was revealed that another Gómez company had an intelligence contract with the Ministry of Defense.
