The Metropolitan Office of Bus Service (OMSA) announced late last week that they were beginning trial runs on a new route up and down Abraham Lincoln Avenue in Santo Domingo. The trial runs are to test whether this route is viable and sustainable in order to make it official. Through a press release, the OMSA office said research is ongoing on the route.
The pilot transport route has buses departing from the OMSA parking lot in Los Rios to service passengers along many of the major avenues of the National District from north to south, such as República de Colombia, Los Próceres, Abraham Lincoln, Correa y Cidrón, Paul Harris and then back up Abraham Lincoln from south to north along a similar route. The press release notes there is no regular public transport bus service on the Av. Abraham Lincoln, so the new route would meet the needs of thousands of employees that work in the area.
The experiment is part of a series of studies by the National Institute of Traffic and Ground Transport (Intrant) together with a group of institutions that are seeking to improve public transit in the National District. The announcement was made during what the agencies are calling “Sustainable Mobility Week” that also includes orientation on the use of the metro, the cable cars and bus service in Greater Santo Domingo.
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25 September 2018
