President Luis Abinader has inaugurated a new public transport corridor along the Independence Avenue, there will be electric buses on JF Kennedy and Nuñez de Cacerez, and the much-awaited Line 2C of the Santo Domingo Metro System in entering final trials before entering into operation on the scheduled date of 24 February 2026.
The new corridor on Independence Avenue will serve an estimated 40,000 persons a day. It joins three other corridors serving Charles de Gaulle, Nuñez de Caceres, Winston Churchill avenues. Over 200 buses are in service on these lines, certainly an improvement over the old OMSA efforts at public transportation. The bus charge is RD$35 for the routes.
The National Confederation of Transportation Organizations (CNTU) has announced the introduction of electric buses on the John F. Kennedy and Nuñez de Caceres corridors in an effort to provide better public safety during the late night hours. The cost for the use of these electric buses. Commuters on the route were known to pay around RD$100 for the transportation services on multi-passenger taxi cabs covering the route during the late night and very early morning hours.
CNTU spokesperson Williams Perez said that the fare would be RD$35, the same as the daytime fares.
At the present time, there are just 10 units covering these corridors, but there are plans to put 50 units on the road as demand increases.
Stressing the safety of this service, Perez also noted that pickups will be anywhere along the routes, not just at designated stops. Another feature stressed by the CNTU leader was the fact that the routes and these buses would be watched by a series of Police mobilized patrol units. This will allow the buses to pick up passengers during the night and the early hours of the dawn with safety and provide an economic service at the same time.
Finally, the Metro Office announces the final tests of the Line 2C, which will connect the Maria Montez Station at Kilometer 9 of John F. Kennedy with Los Alcarrizos, are well underway. This past weekend, the OPRET was testing the new rail system with weighted cars, in a simulation of real use. Other trials, such as the emergency electricity system, communications, and signage are also on-going. Inauguration date for Line 2C has been set for 24 February. The Abinader government construction of Metro Line 2C has been critized for its notorious for a more than two-year delay in construction, steep increase in costs and for its esthetics. The concrete work on this mass transit path is an eyesore. The government insists the work is structurally sound.
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16 February 2026