{"id":21643,"date":"2023-08-17T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latamobility.com\/?p=21643"},"modified":"2023-08-16T16:27:49","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T21:27:49","slug":"dominican-republic-santo-domingo-metropolitan-train-project-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latamobility.com\/en\/dominican-republic-santo-domingo-metropolitan-train-project-unveiled\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Dominican Republic: Santo Domingo Metropolitan Train Project Unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A major project in the pipeline could significantly change transportation in the Dominican Republic. It is the public initiative of the Santo Domingo Metropolitan Train, to initiate the bidding processes to start the works.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The plan was presented by the Office for the Development of Urban and Interurban Mobility Projects, the executing agency of the projects developed by the Trust for the Development of the Mass Transportation System of the Dominican Republic (FITRAM).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n According to local newspaper El Caribe, the handing over of the documentation was headed by Minister of the Presidency Joel Santos Echavarr\u00eda<\/strong>, the director of the Office of Urban and Interurban Mobility Projects and FITRAM<\/strong>, Jhael Isa<\/strong>, and the executive director of the DGAPP<\/strong>, Sigmund Freund<\/strong>, who received the initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the procedure of Law 47-20, the proposal will be heard by the National Council of Public-Private Partnership (CNAPP), so that, once the declaration of public interest is issued, the structuring of the initiative and the competitive process for the awarding of the contract will proceed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Santo Domingo Metropolitan Train is established, in its first stage, as a means of mass public transportation with a capacity for 20,000 passengers per hour in each direction, from the Olympic Center to the Las Americas International Airport, with an extension of 32 kilometers and 20 stations.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nInitiative Details<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n