Engineer Claudia Franchesca de los Santos, the new director of the Transit and Transport Institute (Intrant) says that technology will be used to impose law and order to the present chaos of Dominican transit. Those violating the Transit and Transport Law 63-17 will be unmasked in photographs.
Furthermore, she announced that those using public transport will pay only once to board the metro, skylift and Omsa buses. She highlighted that the transportation unions will be converted into companies and integrated into the system. She said these services will keep their subsidies. The Metro, skylift, Omsa will be privatized.
In the interview with Listin Diario, she says that as part of the first phase of the implementation of Transit and Transport Law 63-17, meetings have been taking place since September 2016 with stakeholders in order to orient them about the new law.
She refuted the generalized belief that violations to traffic laws are a cultural issue for Dominicans. She said when Dominicans go abroad they obey the traffic laws. She said it is thus not a cultural issue, but a personal decision of each driver. She explained the new law establishes the Transit Security and Ground Transport Agency or Digesett (Dirección General de Seguridad de Tránsito y Transporte Terrestre) as responsible for supervising the implementation of the law.
She explained the Intrant is now focusing on the granting of licenses for public transport route operation. She said there will be an awareness campaign that will instill order and supervision across the sector. De los Santos said Digesett will be using electronic control media to supervise the compliance of the law. She mentioned infrared devices at the traffic lights indicating the intersection if a driver has obstructed the pedestrian crossing or violated a traffic light. The equipment will take a photo of the vehicle with its license plate in the front and back as evidence of the violation. The first devices will be installed on the 27 de Febrero corridor.
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Listin Diario
1 August 2017
