Street under construction left halfway, dust, respiratory diseasesaccidents, low business sales, abandoned park and streets with puddles are part of the problems that residents in El Tamarindo, Los Rosales and Hainamosa in Santo Domingo Este.
In a stretch of about 300 meters from the Mella road The asphalt layer was removed due to the bad conditionsbut according to residents it has been almost a month since the Ministry of Public Works did the first part of the work and has not returned to the site to complete it.
Since then, the place has been surrounded by dust that lift vehicles that affect the health of residents and passersby, in addition to impacting businesses that, according to merchant Juan Isidro Suero, sales are down 50%.
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Due to the dust and noise, many customers have stayed away from his grocery store, but he is also worried because his health and that of his customers is affected by the dust that constantly enters his business.
“There are also traffic jams and accidents, vehicles collide all the time, that happens all the time,” he says. He Ministry of Public Works carries out reconstruction work Mella road. This process began more than two years ago and was not completed as was the case with a section near Guayubín Olivo Street.
José Ramón Pérez Martíneza motoconchista from the area, said that the dust affects his health and that of other people: “They have to do something with it, fix it quickly because that dust It’s killing you, there are also many holes and the blocks are very hard.”
Other evils
Another problem for residents in the area is the poor condition of the Central and C 9 streets. A puddle that makes vehicular and pedestrian traffic difficult forms in the Central and although the problem has been going on for years, no authority cares to address the situation.
The central street separates two nurseries of the General Directorate of Beautification of Highways and Avenues (Digecac).
He Hainamosa park It is another work that worries residents. It lacks lighting, the benches are deteriorated and the gazebo is dirty. It is a shelter center for homeless people and dogs that live there.
Many families have stopped going to the park for the bad conditions where it is and the few attractions for children because all the games are destroyed or deteriorated.
