While the government left in operation yesterday Monday the Charles de Gaulle Corridorin the municipality of Santo Domingo Este, groups of drivers braved the rain to demand participation in the new route and to demand that the units of the Metropolitan Office of Bus Services (omsa).
The drivers, organized in the National Federation of Transport La Nueva Option (Phenaran), who drives John Hubieresstood in front of the offices of the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (Intrant) to reject the way in which the corridor was assigned to the Mochotrán Consortium, which directs Alfredo Pulinario (Change).
in this place and banners in hands, the protestersdirected by Jorge Luis Pérez, secretary of Complaints and Conflicts of Fenatranesaid that an alleged mafia operates from that body, which together with officials from the National Palace and a senator, are imposed by the operators of the corridors.
“The government It has been assigned, it has been provided to the transportation groups, to the oligarchs who are there in the mafia to remove the Omsa and then that they are alone, that it be privatized together with the Metro and hand it over to the private class”, Perez said.
He clarified that they are not opposed to transport being modernized, but as long as it is with the actors, with the colleagues who have been offering transport services on these routes for years, with whom they support their families.
Another group of drivers, also affiliated with Fenatraneheld a vigil on Charles de Gaulle avenue, almost on the corner of Hermanas Mirabal, in Villa Mella to demand the same.
Ricardo de la Cruz Bautista, members of the Executive Committee of Fenatranesaid that the director of the Intrant, Rafael Arias, wants to exclude the companions who have been on the Charles de Gaulle route for years to assign the corridor to a small group of relatives who have two leaders of the Cambita group.
He argued that they reject Omsa being removed from the post office to leave space for the people of Cambita, which is inappropriate because that service only costs 15 pesos and the other 35. He rejected that the maintenance of the official buses affects the service inaugurated this Monday.
The driver leader said that the officials of the Intrant and the National Palace lie to President Luis Abinader and run a bad campaign for him, because apparently they play two bases: they are in the government and they seem to be people loyal to Leonel Fernández and Danilo Medina.
