The Ministry of Public Works reports that works on the third phase of the Santo Domingo Bypass, with an extension of 20.8 km, will be completed by the end of this year. Deputy Minister of Public Works Ramón Pepín said that the highway is one of the most important works of the Medina administration. Its completion will facilitate cargo traffic and flow traffic connecting the south and the north of the country with the east. The drivers will be able to avoid the congested city of Santo Domingo.
The four-lane road stretch links the Villa Mella-Yamasá road with the Juan Pablo II Highway (the Samaná tolls road), near the crossing of El Naranjo. The construction has required the building of 10 bridges, three underpasses, two traffic distributors and four returns. Most of these works are completed.
In all, the Santo Domingo Bypass (Circunvalación de Santo Domingo) extends around 70 km from Haina in the west to the Multimodal Caucedo Port in eastern Santo Domingo. The first stretch was inaugurated in February 2015, a second in August 2015.
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Ministry of Public Works
6 August 2019