How they deal with future of SDQ

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If you wonder why they approved parking meters read this:
Study has been made on parking situation and traffic in the city. It took 1 year 1 month and with cost of US$120000 .
Proposal was made to City Council and it took 8 months for approval to be made by commission for final vote in Sala Capitular.
However it never reached Sala Capitular simply because in last minutes it was switched over with another proposal that was pulled out from 1995.
This proposal is the one that was written in newspapers about.
The difference between 2 is quite big.
First one reports:
- Parking garages in Zona Colonial for example are on 40% utilized while triple parking is taking place on every street.
- Average trip to and from work is doubled for the reason of traffic and parking
- Business is suffering because of congestions and parking
- Tourism is suffering because of no signage on streets.
- Total anarchy in traffic

It recommends;
- Employing 1 person per every 200 meters of streets responsible for: Assisting and educating public re parking. Cleaning streets every morning. Report garbage collection or disposal of garbage. Monitoring and reporting damages on the streets. Charging parking fees.
- Applying parking fees as per area. Heavy congested RD5/30 minute, RD10 one hour.
- redirecting people to parking garages
- Planning and organizing satellite car parks and buildings as per need.
- Creating educational program and parking lottery for users. Park&winn.
Etc.

2nd approved program offers parking meters and fines. This program is from 1995 and it can?t compete anywhere in the world today.
Why? Because in country like DR where no Traffic culture exists it will be had to believe that this meters will last a week.

Further as per deal presented in News Papers Company that will get 30% from income with the size of the city like SDQ will be making nothing and will be losing 50 million dollars invested in parking meters in matter of months.

Why this happened.
Greed stupidity and theft. As in many other cases.
Who loses /
Public of Santo Domingo.
As every time they do grand theft more word goes around. Fewer foreigners are coming and more foreigners are going. Just like is happening today.
This is just a part of the story.
Another one will be coming next week.