Santiago monorail and cable car to be in operation by 2024

[Dolores]

The monorail under construction in Santiago will be in service by February 2024 and the Santiago cable car will begin operating in September 2023. The project builders Manuel Estrella, of Estrella Engineering and Jhael Isa, director of the Office of Uban and Interurban Mobility Projects took President Luis Abinader on a tour during his visit to Santiago on 16 August for his two-year in government report.

The monorail is part of the new Integrated Transportation System (SIT) designed to improve public transportation in Santiago, the country’s second largest city. The system is estimated to cost RD$33 billion.

The monorail will travel on a structure of reinforced concrete rails, on a viaduct that will cross the entire city of Santiago from Cienfuegos to Pekín on a 13-kilometer route, with 15 stations and a central terminal for integration with the cable car. The...

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[Luperon]

When will it reach sti? Hopefully the taxi mafia will not stop it.

 

[Trainman33]

It will never reach STI, supposedly a Santiago-Santo Domingo train will.

 

[Yourmaninvegas]

Hopefully they have made plans to integrate the heavy rail system from Santo Domingo to Santiago into the entire public transportation system.
If you can get on a train in Santo Domingo to Santiago. Arrive and then get on public transportation that can take you to all the important areas of the city that will truly be "real" infrastructure,

 

[Luperon]

They need a HUGE undercover law enforcement undertaking of the taxi mafia.

 

[CristoRey]

They need a HUGE undercover law enforcement undertaking of the taxi mafia.

No they don't.
The transportation projects are moving forward without any problems
other than the cost of materials and a little bit of bad weather.

 

[Yourmaninvegas]

No they don't.
The transportation projects are moving forward without any problems
other than the cost of materials and a little bit of bad weather.

Once they are complete those affected will change how they operate or go out of business.
That is the nature of improvement and development.
Smart people will move transportation routes off the main stops of the new public transportation routes.

 

[CristoRey]