Today’s Diario Libre editorial, Thursday 13 February, backs the extension of the Santo Domingo Metro but says that nothing will be achieved by investing in the metro if the government does not end the public transport monopolies that affect commuters.
“It is not a solution to continue spending huge sums on the metro lines when the system is clogged up by the cargo and passenger transporter companies that monopolize transport with their threats.
“No government has been capable of imposing the rule of law, free competition, rights of the consumer, etc… that they are respected in the transport sector. Then, they affect productivity in the country with their bad passenger service, distorting the market when they affect the tourism sector, obstacles to industrial sector competitiveness with their impositions in cargo service.
“They even affect higher education because the deficit in operation makes everyone think of one car for each student.
“More metro lines, yet. But if the rest is not solved, we have done nothing.”
http://www.diariolibre.com/opinion/2014/02/13/i480501_transporte.html