Adios Unused Toll Plaza

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Obras Publicas is finally taking down the unused, fire damaged piaje between Santiago and La Vega. Never should have been built in the first place.

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SKY

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This is where you have to give credit to the local Dominicans. They built that to charge tolls, not for looks. The people living around there almost burnt it down. The Govt. got the message. Try that in the US or any other First World country.
 

dv8

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i thought it was hit by a truck that then exploded and pretty much torched the place down...
 

SKY

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i thought it was hit by a truck that then exploded and pretty much torched the place down...

That might have been the "saving face" story. But it was hit with gasoline and a match.
 

cobraboy

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Really?

I thought they were remodeling it, have been for weeks.

They are tearing it down?

I'm surprised. I thought they'd use tolls for partial funding of the new road around Santiago...
 

cobraboy

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That is the type of contract I used to bid on in Florida for a few years. The removal there of, not the torching.
Der Fish
Weren't you required to sign a statement, under the penalty of perjury, that you used legal employees?
 

cleverlemming

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Brigadas del Ministerio de Obras P?blicas iniciaron el desmantelamiento de la estaci?n de peaje de La Penda, ubicada en la autopista Duarte, cuya demolici?n hab?a sido reclamada por sectores choferiles y populares.

What is the correct translation for "choferiles?"
 

suarezn

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What is the correct translation for "choferiles?"

People who work in the transport of other people (i.e. bus and cab drivers).

It looks like the reason it's being dismantled is because the contract with Davicon was rescinded and the government has no will to start another confrontation with the drivers' unions. It's a good thing all around. At least now there will be less accidents in that area.
 
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What is the correct translation for "choferiles?"

"Agents of the Ministry of Public Works began the dismantling of the La Penda toll plaza, located on the Duarte Highway, whose demolition had been demanded by both drivers and the local people." choferiles" is a plural adjective form of the noun "ch?fer"
that has no exact equivalent in English. That's how I would translate it.
 

suarezn

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I heard somewhere they're going to re-use those booths on the new road being constructed to bypass downtown Santiago.