2015News

Trams to service parts of Santo Domingo

According to El Caribe, the city of Santo Domingo will have a traditional yet innovative public transport system consisting of the installation of Metrocable, a 5km tram system with the capacity to move 3,000 passengers per hour in 160 trams. This will be the first line of a Metrocable system in the city of Santo Domingo, specifically for residents of the banks of the Ozama River. The system will have four stations and will connect with the Santo Domingo Metro. It will start at the Charles de Gaulle Avenue, go into the middle of Sabana Perdida, across the Ozama, next to the bridge in the sector where it will link with another station at Los Tres Brazos. It will then cross the river again and end at the last station of Line II of the Santo Domingo Metro. The Executive Unit for the Readjustment of La Barquita and Environs (URBE) has issued a call to national and international companies to bid for the design and construction of this project as part of a tender process. Construction is scheduled to take 14 months.