The executive director of the National Transport & Transit Institute (Intrant), engineer Claudia Franchesca de los Santos says her department is working with the Ministry of Education to provide public transportation for school children in several communities nationwide. She said Transit Law 63-17 bans children under eight from riding on motorcycles, so the school busing initiative is especially important.
In a meeting hosted by Diario Libre, de los Santos said that the top priority of the Intrant is to reduce traffic accidents. She said the statistics show that motorcycles are involved in 62% of the accidents, while 19% of accidents involve pedestrians.
The city government of Santo Domingo has also said it is working on collective school transport for the National District in order to reduce traffic congestion and improve the safe transport of schoolchildren.
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Diario Libre
7 August 2017
