The ladders electrical of the stations Pedro Mir and Maria Montez of line 2 of Subway of Santo Domingo have been out of service for more than a week, which makes it difficult for usersabove all, to elderly people or people with some physical-motor disability.
The Pedro Mir staircase is one of the steepest and people climb it exhausted. Some have to rest in the middle or when they reach their end. No authority reports what happens, but neither are they observed technicians working.
The one used to go down works perfectly, but sometimes it is also closed so that the users don’t use it and it spends the day going around and people going down the concrete ones.
“I can believe that it is damaged and lasts one or two days, but not as long as it takes. One goes up with the tongue hanging out”Subway user
The same happens in the Maria Montez Station. According to Brígido Nicacio Almonte, a 65-year-old man, it is an “abuse” that the ladders electrical off. He said that he doesn’t like going up in elevators, so he is forced to go up the stairs. ladders walking.
“Look brother, this is not easy, it is exploited that one goes up, look how I am”, gasped the man who could barely speak at the Pedro Mir station.
Another station that had the same problem, but that was already overcome after months without movement of the stairs to go up, is Los Taínos, on line 1. Users They also report difficulties ladders off in other seasons, sometimes for hours or days.
The director of the Office for the Reorganization of Transport (Opret), Rafael Antonio Santos Pérez, said that the ladders have been in operation for up to 13 years, working 16 hours and that, on occasion, some fail, but are immediately subjected to repair and maintenance.
expressed that they are 212 ladders electrical that have the two lines of the Subway and that he receives a daily report of his situation.
“When they tell me that there are six ladders out of service or under maintenance, I jump up because we are talking about 2% or 3% of the ladders old ones that have a lot of use”, Santos Pérez told Diario Libre.
