{"id":117879,"date":"2018-10-23T11:20:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=117879"},"modified":"2018-10-23T11:20:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T15:20:16","slug":"government-needs-to-make-decisions-to-start-resolving-traffic-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/10\/23\/government-needs-to-make-decisions-to-start-resolving-traffic-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Government needs to make decisions to start resolving traffic problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_117841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117841\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-117841\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Manuel-Cabrera-Diario-Digital-RD-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-117841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manuel Cabrera \/ Diario Digital RD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The former president of the Herrera Industries Association (AEIH), Manuel Cabrera says that the Dominican government has to start implementing traffic laws. He said the permissiveness of the government has allowed the transporters, who already control transport, to reach extremes in their operations. Cabrera said that the government needs to take unpopular actions even when these may be contrary to gaining in politics. Cabrera spoke when interviewed by Federico M\u00e9ndez for the TV show Esferas de Poder.<\/p>\n<p>Cabrera said public transport is better thanks to the Santo Domingo Metro. \u201cIf we did not have the metro we would be victims of the chaos in the transport system for the lack of decision-taking by the government in controlling matters as important as public transport, for example,\u201d said Cabrera. He criticized that the Fenatrado guild is a major factor keeping transport costs uncompetitive. \u201cThe cost of transport is very important. Sometimes it costs more to transport a freight container from the Port of Santo Domingo to Santiago than to bring it from Miami to Santo Domingo,\u201d he observed.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/acento.com.do\/2018\/economia\/8617044-expresidente-aeih-advierte-estado-tomar-decisiones-resolver-problema-del-transporte\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acento<\/a><\/p>\n<p>23 October 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former president of the Herrera Industries Association (AEIH), Manuel Cabrera says that the Dominican government has to start implementing traffic laws. He said the permissiveness of the government has allowed the transporters, who already control transport, to reach extremes in their operations. Cabrera said that the government needs to take unpopular actions even when &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/10\/23\/government-needs-to-make-decisions-to-start-resolving-traffic-problems\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}