{"id":164636,"date":"2021-09-14T06:40:39","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T10:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=164636"},"modified":"2021-09-14T09:48:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T13:48:48","slug":"santo-domingo-just-has-too-many-vehicles-in-circulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/09\/14\/santo-domingo-just-has-too-many-vehicles-in-circulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Santo Domingo just has too many vehicles in circulation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Tapones-Listin-Diario-e1631627309798.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164700\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Years of banks offering the lowest rates and best finance plans to buy vehicles have led the capital city of Santo Domingo to practically a standstill. Now it seems everyone has a vehicle or two, but no one is moving with traffic jams being the normal. Double parking on streets is worsening the problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A report in Listin Diario on 13 September 2021 gives the statistics that explain this grim reality. The National District has 1,380,075 vehicles and a population of 1,049,567 persons. Listin Diario says the day will soon come when the city will just be one continuous traffic jam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When extended to Greater Santo Domingo, by including the province of Santo Domingo and the municipality of Bajos de Haina, to the west, Greater Santo Domingo has a population of 4,210,121. A large number of people who live in the province of Santo Domingo and Haina commute every day to and from the capital city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Dominican Republic, with a population of 11 million, there are 4,842,367 units of vehicles registered in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2021\/09\/13\/687893\/los-atascos-transforman-en-infierno-la-movilidad-en-dn\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>14 September 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years of banks offering the lowest rates and best finance plans to buy vehicles have led the capital city of Santo Domingo to practically a standstill. Now it seems everyone has a vehicle or two, but no one is moving with traffic jams being the normal. Double parking on streets is worsening the problem. A &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/09\/14\/santo-domingo-just-has-too-many-vehicles-in-circulation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164636"}],"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=164636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164702,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164636\/revisions\/164702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}