The Director of the Metropolitan Bus Office (OMSA), Ignacio Ditrén, yesterday called on the Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET) to accelerate its work setting up new bus routes so that OMSA can stop losing money. Ditrén noted that OMSA financed the importation of 319 new buses from Brazil, but only 243 are currently in service. The 76 idle units are costing OMSA significant revenue losses, which he estimates at RD$54.5 million. Current routes are already "saturated," he claimed, so the only way to get the buses working is for AMET to hurry up and open six new planned routes.
