This week the National Institute of Transit and Land Transportation (Intrant) of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, celebrates the “National Week of Sustainable Mobility 2024″.
Intrant, together with public and private institutions, seeks to raise awareness among citizens and authorities on how to improve their quality of life according to the way they move around.
Intrant’s Executive Director, Milton Morrison, called on citizens to reflect on the way they move and to join efforts to promote a change towards a more responsible and inclusive transportation.
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The “National Week of Sustainable Mobility” reaches its seventh edition, with the objective of promoting the benefits of using more sustainable transportation such as the collective, bicycles, making trips on foot and also providing information on the current Integrated Public Transportation System (metro-teleferico-public and private bus corridors-bicycles).
Planned Activities
The schedule for the celebration includes activities such as tours and pedestrianization days. In addition, the documentary forum “In Movement, a portrait of the mobility of Santo Domingo” will be held.
Likewise, talks will be given to public transport drivers on the approach to people with mobility problems, at the premises of the Association of People with Physical and Motor Disabilities (Asodifimo).
Another of the activities planned is the forum “Efficiency in Mobility: Optimization of travel time in the GSD”. Next, the mobility forum will be held at the Santiago City Hall, and in Santo Domingo, at the Pedro Henríquez Ureña National University, the documentary forum “In Movement: A Portrait of Mobility in Santo Domingo” will be held, as well as talks to public transport drivers.
To conclude the week, there will be pedestrianization in Ensanche Naco and in the National District.
