Pichardo, any chance that passenger trains will return to the Dominican Republic?
That's how the gov plans to introduce the breakup of the transport union's control over the network from the industrial parks to the ports. The rails will be touted as passanger service solutions but in the shadows will be the rails for commercial containers transport.
A bidding made by Metaldom and associates for the supply of rails and other large metal infrastructures for the project, pushed the plans back until they have the capacity to supply it 100%.
They are undergoing expansions and major investments to achieve it.
The second aspect that delayed the plan, had to do with property clearances.
As the the new GPS based mapping is still being put into service, there's a lot of land that still needs to be ruled in court for.
45% is still under some type of litigation come deslindes.
Others are being cleared as we speak.
Given the impact the expanding Metro and new cable cars will have unto the transportation terrorist cells, the gov is going easy on this major, major, back-bone breaking project against the owners of the country.
We are talking double stacked rows and rows of trains.
Not only that, but also interconnecting the cargo carrying airports to the rail system along with passengers.
It's a very ambitious project.
It will kill the monopoly of transport unions...
