drivers from different routes of Greater Santo Domingo demanded this Thursday the opening of the runners that the authorities implement and warned that they will not abandon their colleagues and vehicle owners because of the change in the system of transportation passenger public.
Antonio Brito, vice president of the National Federation of Transportation The New Option (Fenatrane), he told the Government that they are in the best disposition to sit down with the authorities to continue with the runners that have been projected.
In a concentration of drivers near the head of the Francisco del Rosario Sánchez or 17th bridge, representatives of Fenatraneof the National Federation of Transporters Friends of Peña Gómez (Phenatrapegum) expressed that they will work with the Government to change and improve transportation the country public.
Brito indicated that it is necessary to guarantee the acquired rights of the drivers and what with the runners crime will be prevented from growing and he recalled that each car has 2.5 jobs that must be guaranteed.
“If work, rights and jobs are guaranteed, then it is guaranteed that crime will go down instead of going up, if we send all these men to the streets, then crime increases,” he said.
He stated that the “Government has the ball in his hands” and that the entities they represent are in the best disposition to assert the right to work and the government enforce the right of social inclusion that must be done to solve the problem of runners in Greater Santo Domingo.
Eddy Sanchez, president of Phenatrapegumthrough a joint statement with Antonio Brito, specified that, “meter by meter, route by route and avenue by avenue and town by town, they will work together with the State to change and improve the transportation public of the country”.
“Today we are here simply so that the people and the government Dominican know who we are, those who currently operate in this corridor and 95% of Greater Santo Domingo and the country… We do not come to protest, but to show our willpower towards change, but including the transportation of passengers in the Dominican Republic,” Sánchez said.
Brito said that the drivers They have the cars and the buses and the drivers who are in the streets and if the Government understand that to drivers it has to be modernized, so it has to provide facilities to enter the modernization routes and he clarified that they do not have the luck that others have, such as the media, that most of those who consume have it exonerated.
