Engineer Hamlet Hermann, head of the Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET), the organization responsible for restructuring the transport systems in the DR, said that the bus corridor that is planned to run from the Centro de los Héroes, up Máximo Gómez Avenue and to end in Villa Mella, north of Santo Domingo, will be in operation in January 1999. The AMET is reaching agreements with owners of minibuses in the area, to convert these into shareholders of companies to which AMET would sell the buses that are being imported to service the corridor. An estimated 100 buses will serve the corridor. With the move, AMET seeks to remove from city streets dilapidated minibuses.
