The Ministry of Public Works is backing the Traffic Agency “ParqueaT-RD” effort to improve traffic and parking in congested city areas. The focus is on the Colonial City. The announcement comes while the National Transit and Transport Agency (Intrant) has launched its Parqueate Bien pilot program in Serrallés, Piantini and Naco.
The Ministry of Public Works reports it signed a collaboration agreement with the General Traffic Safety and Land Transportation Agency (Digesett) on Wednesday, 9 November 2022 to improve vehicular congestion on the roads surrounding the parking lots that correspond to the Trust for the Expansion, Maintenance and Operation of the Network of Parking Lots for Public Use (ParquéaT-RD), both in the National District and in cities of the interior of the country.
Minister of Public Works Deligne Ascención and the director of the Digesett, Brigadier General Ramón Antonio Guzmán Peralta signed in the present of officials of the Intrant.
The Ministry of Public Works is contributing a tow truck to remove improperly parked cars located on the roads adjacent to parking lots operated under the ParquéaT-RD public-private trust. Minister Ascención spoke up against parking on sidewalks, putting at risk the lives of people and damaging the sidewalks.
“This institutional collaboration is strengthening the two institutions, so that in a relatively short time, the those who visit it that learn that they must respect the traffic signs,” he said.
The director of Mobility of Intrant, Alexandra Cedeño, said that they are working with ParquéaT-RD to increase parking spaces in the Colonial City, especially on weekends.
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Ministry of Public Works
10 November 2022