An agreement signed between the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transport (Intrant) and the New Option National Transport Federation (Fenatrane) gives the company a period of 10 days to remove its car and bus drivers from the routes where the new Charles de Gaulle corridor operates.
According to a press release, the “understanding” agreement between Intrant Y Fenatrane It arrived to reduce the disturbances and confrontations caused by the start-up of new bus corridors for the public transport service in Greater Santo Domingo.
For the signing of the agreement, the president of the Dominican Municipal League (LMD), Víctor D’Aza, acted as mediator between both parties and as a witness.
According to the press release, the director of the Intrant, Raphael Ariasand the president of Fenatrane, John Hubieresagreed that, for the implementation of the corridors, specifically the Charles de Gaulle corridor, a satisfactory solution must be found for the car drivers operating on the routes covered by the new transportation system.
Cleared the route of the Charles for the new corridor, the Intrant promised to carry out a survey to include the missing drivers.
On March 30, after several buses on the Charles corridor were stoned hours after they came into operation, the Transportation Office promised to Fenatrane its inclusion in the corridors that it implements in the country. Hugo Beras, director of the Transportation Officeadvanced that the objective is to assign to Fenatrane the corridor of the avenue 27 of February.
Conflict in the new corridor
Since its entry into operation there have been violent events on the route of the Charles de Gaulle. The protests of dissatisfied drivers for not having been included have not ceased.
Violent actions have been recorded on that road, in which passengers and drivers have been attacked and buses stoned. One of the victims was Mrs. Lucía Valera that she was injured by a stone while she was being transported on one of the buses and that a large wound on her face had to be sutured.
For the facts, the broker’s operators blame members and leaders of Fenatrane but its president Juan Hubieres disassociated himself and described the accusation as a conspiracy from Mochotran and Conatra to break up the dialogue table with the Government, which has already promised him a broker.
This Thursday, members of Fenatrane They created chaos in transportation, mainly in the municipalities of Santo Domingo Este and Norte, where they stopped their units in protest at their alleged exclusion from the Charles de Gaulle corridor. Many of them marched towards the National Palace.
Transport routes in Greater Santo Domingo have become a big business that generates more than 50 million pesos a day, according to the report “Public transport and urban mobility in Greater Santo Domingo: Challenges for a social policy for inclusion and equity”, and that former trade unionists, now businessmen, try to control.
The Charles de Gaulle corridor It was awarded to the Mochotrán Transportation Companies Consortium, directed by Alfredo Pulinario (Cambita), which was also awarded the one for Winston Churchill Avenue. A Conatra, directed by Senator Antonio Marte, manages the transport consortium of Núñez de Cáceres Avenue, the first to be launched.
