The Director of the Office for the reorganization of the Transport (OPRET), Rafael Santos Pérezannounced that from next July the trains of six wagons with ability To mobilize more than a thousand people by train, which will reduce the tumults that are formed in the spike hours in the stations.
The official said the trains They will gradually incorporate both in line 1 and 2 until completing the totality. Indicated that there are cars to trains six and a car is expected to arrive every month that will immediately be incorporated into the system.
In addition to incorporating trains of six cars the OPRET It contemplates leaving the extension of the new interconnection corridor in the transfer or connection between lines 1 and 2.
Following the vision of president Luis Abinader to modernize and optimize the public transportwith this step we will increase the ability of transport And we guarantee a more comfortable service for users and users, whose service is essential for the development of their daily activities, “he said.
At present, progress is made in the adjustments of signaling and that the German contractor Siemens, works on the update of the software and the signalingwhich will allow the operation of the first trains of six wagons from July of this year.
Santos indicated that with the increase in trains of six cars the ability of transport of the metro will increase between 5% and 6%, and that with the opening of the line 2-cfrom the last quarter of this year, it will increase to 15%.
The system of metro from Santo Domingo mobilizes daily between 350,000 to 400,000 people and it is expected that from July the agglomerations In the Mama Tingo and Concepción Bona stations as well as in the Transfer or Juan Pablo Duarte, mainly in the so -called peak hours.
Santos Pérez reported that in April the phase of Civil works and that the electric part would be ready in August. It is expected that it will then proceed with the evidence and then leave the system in complete operation at the end of the year.
