Santiago: Seven Pillars of Mobility and Transport

CristoRey

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Santiago concludes Seven Pillars of Mobility and Transport, advances of the City Council
are a reference for progress:

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the City of Santiago and the CDES, handed over to the government and the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (INTRANT) the 7 pillars of integrated mobility, a genuine Integral Plan for Sustainable Urban Mobility (PIMUS) . With this initiative, the city of Santiago and its metropolitan environment, with modest resources donated by the IDB, has placed itself at the forefront of Dominican and Central American cities in having a true mobility regime.

The PIMUS complies with another of the projects arranged by more than 245 institutions in the Santiago 2020 Strategic Plan and institutionalized by Municipal Ordinance No. 2945-10 of the Council of Councilors of the City of Santiago.

The 7 pillars of the Integral Urban Sustainable Mobility Plan (PIMUS) of Santiago raise the urgent need to put into operation, first, a Mobility Council with the participation of the City Council and INTRANT as governing entities; second, a road safety plan focused on saving lives and preventing injuries, especially in motorcyclists and pedestrians; third, a program of transport of goods and loads of products; fourth, a parking meter system of the historic center; fifth, a mobility program for cyclists; sixth, a program of interventions on roads and protection of public spaces; and seventh, a private-public collective transport program.

Five years later, the plan would cost US $ 518 million (26 billion pesos) to be sponsored by the IDB, agencies and investment banks. However, in the first 12 months, with only 50 million pesos to be obtained for shared investments, Santiago will have a solved freight transport; likewise, the parking system of the center in operation, road safety with homologated protective helmets for motorcyclists and a Mobility Council attracting more resources.

The highest cost of PIMUS would be the implementation of a collective transport system that would entail the restructuring and implementation of a three-year public transport system, considering all modes of transport in an integral manner.

The collective transportation system (pillar 7) with the participation of the City Council, Government and the IDB, would have an immediate impact in the amount of US $ 467,062,600.00 (23 billion Dominican pesos) to be managed with the inclusion of the various federations and associations of transportation entrepreneurs from Santiago. The proposed network will be under the control of a single carrier alliance, governed by the closed system scheme. This system will be implemented in phases, according to the growth of the demand of each route, and is characterized by being confined lanes, where only public transport can circulate. This approach recovers space in the road network to cleaner transport systems, providing a new image for public transport through an organized, efficient network with new buses.

Alberto Marín of the IDB, Reynaldo Peguero of the CDES and José Manuel Villalona Sosa of the City Council, stressed that Santiago de los Caballeros faces problems very similar to the rest of cities in Latin America; However, with scarce resources, it has had a positive impact, and there is still time to change the approach with which the mobility of the city is planned. With the implementation of each of the programs it is possible to achieve a city in which the quality of life of the people of Santiago is a reference in the Dominican Republic and the world.

SOURCE: CitySantiago.com (Santiago local news)

What I find interesting is this initiative is being done with the help of the IDB.
One would think it would be promoted by Chinese investment given all the hype
in the press lately.
 

cobraboy

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If the Powers that Be would have public-transport only lanes (right lane, with conchos unable to pull out of that lane), designated public pick-up/drop-off stops (conchos unable to just stop anywhere along the route), and crack down on jaywalkers, those would be an enormous help.

Maddening behaviors like conchos driving slowly looking for a fare, diving into and out of traffic, double parking while passengers get in and out and straddling two lanes blocking traffic while looking for fares, IMO, are the most pronounced problems in Santiago traffic. The rest is easy to deal with.

But good luck butting heads with the transportation unions...