The deputy for the People’s Force (FP), Tobías Crespo, says the Abinader administration is violating the Constitution and the Mobility, Land Transportation and Road Safety Law 63-17 with how it is implementing the new bus corridors throughout Greater Santo Domingo.
“This government is not transforming transportation, it is giving continuity, but in the how they are violating the law and the Constitution,” said Crespo when interviewed for the radio talk show program El Rumbo de la Mañana on 98.5 FM. He says the law says the corridors are for five years and are being given for 10 years.
Crespo drafted the Mobility, Land Transportation and Road Safety Law 63-17. The law dates back to 2017 and created the National Institute of Transit and Transport (Intrant). Intrant together with the Ministry of the Presidency is coordinating the new corridors under the public private alliance model. Crespo says the procedure executed by the authorities is a swindle and a deceit. He says the implementation is not giving priority to the bus riders.
During a recent Chamber of Deputies session, Crespo said the drivers are hired and paid only RD$15,000. He says the winners in the new bus corridors are the person who sells the buses for the corridor, the Intrant that receives a percentage of the collected rate and the Trust division of the government Banco de Reservas that charges a monthly fee. He said the public-private collectivity shares of the drivers are being purchased and will end up in the hands of one owner.
Crespo has criticized the removing of the government Omsa system and increasing it from RD$15 to RD$35. The objective, he says, is to eliminate Opret, Omsa and privatize public transport to one person and sector.
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6 April 2022