The coordinator of Transport cabinet, Deligne Ascencionand the executive vice president of the Metropolitan Office of Bus Services (OMSA), Onesimo Gonzálezthey reported Monday that the new integrated system of Transport Public, which will start operating in December, will have a unique cost of 35 pesos for trip and allow several transfers within the same journey for a period of between 30 and 45 minutes.
According to Gonzálezhe passage will cover one Complete route with the possibility of combining different means of transport –metro, OMSAcable car or runners— Without paying additionalprovided that the transfers are carried out within the established time.
“He Ida passage It costs thirty -five pesos, and the return is another passage. The only thing is that you can take a model of transport In the Charles, for example, and make a transford in Mom Tingó, then at the Juan Pablo Duarte station of the metro and continue on a bus to Los Alcarrizos. Transhipment are made in a period of 30 to 45 minutes; expired that time You have to pay another passage”, He explained González.
- The scheme will be part of the Rate Integration System of the Transport Public, announced by the Transport cabinetwhich will allow users to mobilize between different media with a single validation of electronic payment.
In its first stage, the system will cover the lines 1 and 2 of the Metrohe Lost savanna cable carand the runners of the Winston Churchill Avenues and Núñez de Cáceres. Subsequently it will extend to the rest of the great Santo Domingo and Santiago.
Reduce ticket costs
The cabinet, headed by Deligne Ascencion and the Minister of the Presidency José Ignacio Beichostressed that the goal is reduce The daily costs of transport For citizens and offer a Urban mobility Continuous and orderly.
During the meeting on Monday, the progress of the program of School transportationwhich will be implemented in coordination with the Private School Association and the Ministry of Educationin a first phase in the National District.
The new system will operate under a Digital Payment Model —Compatible with the current scheme of the metro and the cable car— and it is expected to be available Before finishing The year, according to the authorities.
