High levels of stress, anxiety, muscle pain, restlessness, irritability and mood disorder are some of the consequences of the congestion and the disorder in it transit of vehicles in the main cities of the country.
The sociologist Celedonio Jimenez and psychiatrists Hector Guerrero Heredia and Cesar Mella They analyzed this Wednesday the effects of that social problem in the mental health and in the conduct of the Dominicans.
The specialists stated that they urgently need a solution to this problem, which causes a person to take up to two hours to reach their destination.
They highlighted the discouragement and fear of going out on the streets of drivers and those who use public passenger transportation, mainly during peak traffic hours, to enter and leave study or work centers due to traffic jams.
Great social stress
“The plugs of vehicles generated in a large social stressas a product of the great anxiety caused by not arriving or being late for a commitment or work,” said Celedonio Jiménez, former director of the School of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD).
“Drivers and the general population feel overwhelmed, just with the idea of having to take a vehicle to drive on public roads”added the university professor.
He also said that the plugs increase people’s irritability, causing conflicts, arguments, recklessness and lack of courtesy among drivers.
“That is, this problem causes individualistic tendencies to manifest in vehicle drivers,” he said.
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Jiménez also referred to the millionaire economic losses and time that this chaos causes in Dominican society.
“They are a very negative, costly and exhausting note for our society,” he insisted.
Social disorder
The renowned psychiatrist Héctor Guerrero Heredia considers that this chaos in traffic is a product of lack of education of the Dominicans.
“We live in the society of every man for himself, of individualismwhere everyone has a cistern to supply water and an electric plant to supply energy,” he said.
“The plug combines the informality, lack of education, indiscipline and lack of authority that prevail in Dominican society,” Guerrero Heredia concluded.
Restlessness
César Mella, former dean of the UASD Faculty of Medicine, considers that “There is nothing more terrible than a person spending an hour locked in a vehicle without any possibility of movement or space to do their physiological needs.”
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The psychiatrist, former president of Dominican Medical Collegeo (CMD), considered that this traffic chaos “is making millions of people suffer every day.”
He said that measures are urgently needed to confront this situation and that one of them could be the application of rotating schedules for entry and exit to work and study centers in the main cities of the country.
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They don’t do anything
The psychiatrist César Mella criticized the passivity of the authorities to face the problem of vehicular traffic congestion and considered that one way to face it could be the application of rotating schedules for entry and exit to work and study centers in the main cities of the country.
He also questioned the increase in the vehicle fleet, with the massive entry of vehicles every year.
