Only 400 buses out of a total fleet of 928 assigned to the metropolitan office of bus services (OMSA) are in service in Santo Domingo and Santiago. This represents only 43.1% of the total. Meanwhile, 120 units are in mechanics workshops for repair and 80 are being rebuilt. Another 185 are unusable junk. A further three units are on loan to public institutions, whereas the remaining 70 were withdrawn from inventory due to their advanced state of deterioration, according to a report by Clave newspaper. Because of this situation, OMSA is only covering 18% of the demand for public transportation in the Santo Domingo and Santiago metropolitan zones.