Today on DR1 News Leonel says that the Metro will be cheap. I now have proof that drug use has permeated Dominican society all the way up to the Presidential Palace. Ay dios mio.:ermm:
What is President Fern?ndez referring to when he says "cheap". Is it the fare? Iv'e heard several figures regarding the estimated operational cost per passenger to travel on the DR metro, and they range between 100 to 140 pesos. If the metro is to compete with current public transportation (buses and conchos), then the fare cannot be higher than 25 pesos. If the government has to subsidize the operational cost, and the metro is designed to transport about 35,000 passengers/day, taking the minimum estimated operational cost of 100 pesos/passenger, then we're talking about a direct government subsidy of over 2.5 million pesos per day, or almost 1000 million pesos per year. Now, does that sound cheap?!!!!
.... Anyone want to wager weather "L" takes the first ride in Feb. 2008 as he stated this years????????????
It is vox populi that "L" will resign immediately upon loosing the primaries tomorrow to Danilo Medina, and will leave the presidency to the Vice President, Rafaelito Alburquerque...
....can't stop the horse in the middle of the race.