The deputy director of the Transport Reorganization Office (Opret), Leonel Carrasco, stated yesterday, Tuesday 14 May that recovering the billions invested in the construction of the Santo Domingo Metro would be a long-term process. In the first place, he stated, the system needs to be completed and the feeder lines established. This same process has been experienced in other cities in the Americas. Carrasco told Hoy reporter Juan Ramirez that the Metro system carried nearly five million passengers during the month of April, which he considered to be a healthy figure for an unfinished system. He showed the reporter the figures that indicate that Metro I serves 3.1 million passengers, with most traffic being recorded Monday to Friday.