The Metropolitan Transport Authority of Santo Domingo (AMET) is promising that some 300 new 40-passenger buses will be in transit in city streets by summer, providing significant relief to the transport chaos presently affecting the city. Engineer Hamlet Hermann said that while the first corridor will be that of the 27 de Febrero, where the buses will begin their operation on 26 January, others will follow shortly. He said the bus units running on exclusive lanes on the Avenida John F. Kennedy (from Almirante, San Vicente de Paul, Padre Castellanos, Expreso Quinto Centenario through Los Alcarrizos) should get started by the end of February. The first south-north corridor will be that of the Avenida Máximo Gómez, that will go from the Malecón to Villa Mella, and will be in effect by March. He said that his department is contemplating establishing an exclusive bus lane that would cross the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo, the state university, through Av. Alma Mater.
