DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Jorge Luis Polanco, Milton Morrison and Francisco Osoria de la Cruz / Diario Libre

It was about time. The Presidency announced that the National Institute of Transit and Land Transportation (Intrant) took decisive action to secure the nation’s traffic light system following a serious disruption caused by the contracted company. The incident, which occurred between Wednesday 28 and Friday, 30 August 2024, affecting dozens of traffic lights on key avenues, has prompted a thorough investigation and a significant overhaul of the traffic light system’s management.

Intrant officials revealed that Transcore Latam SRL, the company contracted to modernize and manage the Greater Santo Domingo’s traffic light system, had made unauthorized changes to the system’s devices and regulators on the night of Tuesday, 27 August 2024. These...