{"id":221158,"date":"2024-08-12T08:06:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T12:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=221158"},"modified":"2024-08-12T09:25:21","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T13:25:21","slug":"abinader-takes-first-ride-on-santiagos-monorail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/08\/12\/abinader-takes-first-ride-on-santiagos-monorail\/","title":{"rendered":"Abinader takes first ride on Santiago\u2019s monorail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Monorriel-Santiago-Luis-Abinader-Listin-Diario-1024x500.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-221163\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Monorriel-Santiago-Luis-Abinader-Listin-Diario-1024x500.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Monorriel-Santiago-Luis-Abinader-Listin-Diario-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Monorriel-Santiago-Luis-Abinader-Listin-Diario-768x375.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Monorriel-Santiago-Luis-Abinader-Listin-Diario-1536x750.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Monorriel-Santiago-Luis-Abinader-Listin-Diario.png 1892w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On Sunday, 11 August 2024, President Luis Abinader took his first ride on the Santiago monorail, one of the major infrastructure projects of his administration. This was a short test run, the first dynamic test of the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mass transit system also includes a cable car system that will feed the monorail from the densely populated areas south of the Yaque River in the second-largest city. Some of the routes of the popular cars known as \u201cconchos\u201d are being modified to serve as \u201cfeeders\u201d to the new system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Monorriel-Santiago-Primera-Prueba-Presidencia-1024x556.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-221162\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Monorriel-Santiago-Primera-Prueba-Presidencia-1024x556.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Monorriel-Santiago-Primera-Prueba-Presidencia-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Monorriel-Santiago-Primera-Prueba-Presidencia-768x417.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Monorriel-Santiago-Primera-Prueba-Presidencia-1536x834.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Monorriel-Santiago-Primera-Prueba-Presidencia-2048x1112.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The ride on the monorail was but one of the many activities carried out by the President during his weekend in the central Cibao region. His agenda included everything from cutting the ribbon on a new army installation in San Francisco de Macoris to aqueducts, highways, and apartment complexes. The Santiago monorail system begins in the municipality of Cienfuegos in West Santiago, crosses most of the city, and ends on Estrella Sadhala Avenue next to the main campus of the Pontifical Catholic University Madre y Maestra (PUCMM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a previewlistener=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/gobierno\/20240812\/abinader-condujo-ayer-primera-fase-prueba-motorriel-santiago_820991.html\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/20240808\/presidente-abinader-hara-primera-prueba-monorriel-santiago_820691.html\">Listin Diario <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 August 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, 11 August 2024, President Luis Abinader took his first ride on the Santiago monorail, one of the major infrastructure projects of his administration. This was a short test run, the first dynamic test of the system. The mass transit system also includes a cable car system that will feed the monorail from the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/08\/12\/abinader-takes-first-ride-on-santiagos-monorail\/\" 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":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221158"}],"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=221158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221251,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221158\/revisions\/221251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}