Eric Dorrejo, an architect who holds a doctorate from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, writes to El Caribe to criticize the government’s decision to build a metro in Santo Domingo. He says the metro has been resurrected as the solution to the transportation chaos, and that each government arrives with a new plan every four years while transport continues in chaos. In his opinion, any solution proposed without integrating the various public transport systems that interact in cities would not be sustainable. He suggests that the Dominican authorities cast an eye on European cities such as Rouen, Dresden or Vienna, which have greater populations than Santo Domingo but where traffic flows unhindered. He says other prime examples in Latin America are Bogota, Salvador de Bahia (Brazil) and Lima, Peru.