The program to convert routes of concho carts in runners of buses began with a lot of impetus and managed to inaugurate three in the first two years of President Luis Abinader’s government, but fell into lethargy.
Lysander Macarrullathen Minister of the Presidency, promised that before the end of 2022 he would deliver nine. That same year, the former director of the National Institute of Transit and Transport Terrestrial (Intrant), Hugo Berasannounced that there would be 16 and that everything would be done in less than a month.
But the reality is that, just a few days before 2025, the authorities They admit that they are only working on the formation of two of them and nothing is done with the rest.
The promise was renewed with the new head of the Intrant, Milton Morrisonwho offered two weeks ago to establish 13 runners only for 2025.
Several of them would operate in routes controlled by the National Federation of Transport New Option (Fenatrane), although its president, Juan Hubiereshe still hasn’t found out, according to what he told Free Diary.
The business that Abinader’s first government agreed to with Anthony Marspresident of the National Confederation of Organizations of Transport (Conatra), and the late Alfredo Pulinario (Cambita), of the Consortium of Transport Companies (Mochotran), it has not been possible with Hubieres.
He Intrant attributes the delay “to the fact that all the providers of the transport public They must necessarily complete the transformation process into companies, which must be duly constituted, which implies that there is an agreement between the operators of the different routes“.
But these processes did not prevent the formation of the runners of the avenues José Núñez de Cáceres, Winston Churchill and Charles Gaulle.
HubieresOn the other hand, he assures that he has opposed the “shady deals” that have been offered to him. officials conspired with senior driver leaders to overvalue the buses and share the profits. He would also have refused any scheme that leaves out the thousands of drivers and route owners who currently coexist in the routes of the transport.
He corridor of the 27 February was the first that the Intrant tried to create, but failed after several agreements and disagreements with Hubieres and the other groups that operate there.
He Intrant indicated that it has not been possible “because internal situations arose among its members,” but Hubieres He says he didn’t want to accept a corrupt deal with a official and a leader of transport which he did not identify.
“I didn’t want to go in, because one baby I had between 30 and 40 thousand dollars of overvaluation so that they could get rich and I didn’t feel like getting rich that way… Possibly you managed close to 300 million of pesos only by buying overpriced buses…”, he accuses.
He says part of the deal is accepting vehicles of worse capacities and qualities and without maintenance including.
Independence Corridor
The assembly of Corridor of the avenue Independence is already in the negotiation phase with a factory for the purchase of the 67 buses, although Hubieres denies that it can be launched before the end of 2024, as he said Morrison.
Your route will begin at kilometer 12 of the avenue Independence and will end in park of the same name. It will cost around 10 million of dollars.
This was awarded to the Cooperative of Transport and Multiple Services Río Ozama (Coopzama) and the Company Transport Transpsantomingo AFDC.
The other one that is being prepared is Corridor Duartein Santiago, assigned to Consortium of Companies of Transport of Routes, and which is also in the stage of acquiring the bus fleet.
