{"id":121155,"date":"2019-01-14T12:58:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T12:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=121155"},"modified":"2019-01-14T16:11:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T16:11:49","slug":"higher-tolls-on-samana-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/01\/14\/higher-tolls-on-samana-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Higher tolls on Saman\u00e1 highway"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"698\" height=\"347\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Samana-Toll-Booth-El-Nacional.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-121219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Samana-Toll-Booth-El-Nacional.png 698w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Samana-Toll-Booth-El-Nacional-300x149.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><figcaption>Photo: El Nacional<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican-Colombian company, Autopistas del Nordeste (the official name of the toll road between Las Americas Highway and Nagua) has increased tolls by RD$82 starting late last week. The cost of travelling the toll road that cuts a lot of time between the East and the area of the Samana Peninsula will now be RD$2,126 instead of the RD$3,044 paid before. The Atlantic Touristic Boulevard (the road between El Catey and Las Terrenas) will now cost RD$571.00 each way. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the Marbella tollbooth, the first one between Las Americas Expressway and the road north to Samana, will now cost RD$66.00. At El Naranjal, at the Monte Plata crossroad, the toll bill will be RD$196, up RD$7. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apparently, every year the consortium increases the tolls on this highway, in spite of the fact that the Dominican government heavily subsidizes the company.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/elnacional.com.do\/aumentan-tarifas-de-peajes-en-carretera-samana\/\">El&nbsp;Nacional<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 January 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican-Colombian company, Autopistas del Nordeste (the official name of the toll road between Las Americas Highway and Nagua) has increased tolls by RD$82 starting late last week. The cost of travelling the toll road that cuts a lot of time between the East and the area of the Samana Peninsula will now be RD$2,126 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/01\/14\/higher-tolls-on-samana-highway\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121155"}],"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=121155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121220,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121155\/revisions\/121220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}