{"id":7909,"date":"2004-10-05T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2004-10-05T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/barge-offers-transport-over-chavon\/"},"modified":"2004-10-05T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2004-10-05T01:43:56","slug":"barge-offers-transport-over-chavon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/10\/05\/barge-offers-transport-over-chavon\/","title":{"rendered":"Barge offers transport over Chavon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> While efforts continue to restore a vehicular bridge over the Chavon River in order to provide a land link for La Romana and La Altagracia province, a barge is offering an alternative service. The Listin Diario reported that the ferry is charging RD$500 per car or pick-up truck. The ferry is not transporting cargo trucks.<\/p>\n<p> Another option by land from Santo Domingo takes around eight hours (versus the previous 2-1\/2 hours), as it requires a detour through El Seibo to the north and then a drive south to Higuey onto Bayahibe or Punta Cana.<\/p>\n<p> Situation in the DR following the effects of Hurricane Jeanne on 16 September has very much improved. For an update on the status of hotels, see http:\/\/www.dr1.com\/travelnews\/status.shtml<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While efforts continue to restore a vehicular bridge over the Chavon River in order to provide a land link for La Romana and La Altagracia province, a barge is offering an alternative service. The Listin Diario reported that the ferry is charging RD$500 per car or pick-up truck. The ferry is not transporting cargo trucks. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2004\/10\/05\/barge-offers-transport-over-chavon\/\" 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":[223,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909"}],"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=7909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}