The Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET) has decreed that as of next Monday, ‘publico’ cars will alternate their service inter-daily according to the color of their roof – yellow or green. Diario Libre reports that this measure is being implemented in Santo Domingo and Santiago and is meant to save fuel, help organize the public transit system and reduce the number of cars circulating on the streets. On Monday, only ‘publicos’ with green tops will be able to circulate. AMET’s public relations manager Colonel Damian Enrique Arias assured that there would not be unequal availability of cars as the painting of car tops has been done at 50% for each color. The deadline for ‘publico’ cars to get their tops painted ends tomorrow, yet an estimated 9,000 have still not been painted. The official said that starting Monday, vehicles that circulate without having been identified will be removed from the streets.