Video: New Av. Ecológico Toll Opens

[MiamiDRGuy]

 

[Liberator]

Used it in december (for free at that time and not completely finished) and it is a time-saver in travelling to the Capital

 

[MiamiDRGuy]

 

[MiamiDRGuy]

 

[JD Jones]

Not going to lie, I thought that would never be finished. It was started decades ago.

 

[MariaRubia]

I never quite understood why they built a beltway, which then stops before it goes all the way round, and then they built another road a few miles south which completes the belt. And the road between the two is a single lane in each direction. Why didn't they just complete the beltway? Or is there a plan to do this?

 

[JD Jones]

I never quite understood why they built a beltway, which then stops before it goes all the way round, and then they built another road a few miles south which completes the belt. And the road between the two is a single lane in each direction. Why didn't they just complete the beltway? Or is there a plan to do this?

I believe the Ecologico will eventually connect to Caucedo.

 

[MariaRubia]

I believe the Ecologico will eventually connect to Caucedo.

Yes I understand, but the idea was surely to create connectivity between Haina and Caucedo. And having built the beltway up until the autopista del nordeste you'd think they would continue that same road to connect with Caucedo. Instead the beltway kind of runs out unexpectedly and you have to get onto the other highway and then pick up the extension of Ecologico.

 

[MiamiDRGuy]

Yes I understand, but the idea was surely to create connectivity between Haina and Caucedo. And having built the beltway up until the autopista del nordeste you'd think they would continue that same road to connect with Caucedo. Instead the beltway kind of runs out unexpectedly and you have to get onto the other highway and then pick up the extension of Ecologico.

This is the reason, to put trucks on that toll so they can skip the city and go all way to Haina, I guess.

 

[M4kintosh]

I never quite understood why they built a beltway, which then stops before it goes all the way round, and then they built another road a few miles south which completes the belt. And the road between the two is a single lane in each direction. Why didn't they just complete the beltway? Or is there a plan to do this?

The Ecologica was initially the planned road to connect the Hipodromo and then connect Boca Chica in the early 90s. Now that path is finally ended.

There's already documents from the 80s and 90s that Santo Domingo would heavily expand to the East and even triggered the current Santo Domingo Este municipality converting it into a separate province with senators and deputees.

The current beltway (Circunvalacion de Santo Domingo) was intentionally planned to start on old Haina road, cross DR2, bypass DR1 and end on DR7.

The Jacobo Majluta - Charles De Gaulle avenues were the original Circunvalación of Santo Domingo back in the 70s/80s. The plan to create a beltway like the one today we have stalled during the 80s IMF crisis and the 1984 Poblada.

 

[JD Jones]

Yes I understand, but the idea was surely to create connectivity between Haina and Caucedo. And having built the beltway up until the autopista del nordeste you'd think they would continue that same road to connect with Caucedo. Instead the beltway kind of runs out unexpectedly and you have to get onto the other highway and then pick up the extension of Ecologico.

The connectivity is almost there. Any truck coming out of Haina has a very short 3-4 kilometer trip to the circunvalacion Santo Domingo.

They only have to finish the connection between Ecologia and Caucedo, which is less than a mile to be done.