DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

The Presidency announced the issuing of Decree 60-26 that eliminates the previously named OPRET (Office for the Reorganization of Transportation), the Metro Office. The OPRET is replaced by the EMT (Empresa de Mantenimiento de Transporte). The EMT is in charge of handling the operation and maintenance of all mass-transit equipment. In the restructuring the building of transport infrastructure, such as new rail, metro, or cable car facilities, falls under the care of the FITRAM (the Mass Transit System Development Trust).

These decrees come on the heels of the announcement of a US$900 million proposal for a new monorail system in Santo Domingo. The proposal is to create 11 kilometers of a monorail system that will travel from the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center all the way to the King Juan Carlos Bridge at the Las Americas Highway in East Santo...