OMSA is en route to innovation

The Office Metropolitan bus services (OMSA) is focused on a transformation process that seeks to be an increasingly efficient institution.

Your address has proposed taking a safe and expeditious route to achievement of targets that will result in benefit of their most important asset: users.

Since its creation in 1997, the institution has outlined a goal lead public passenger transport, first in the capital and Santo Domingo, and then in Santiago de los Caballeros.

But the task had been difficult and has found many obstacles along the way.

Director-general of OMSA, Ignacio Ditrén, is that more years has remained at the head of the institution.

To his credit as an officer has had to raise and maintain service to as lead, even in the midst of the challenges imposed by the high operating costs, basically in the face of increasingly encarecidos prices of fuels and the u000aspare parts.

The integration of the modalities of passenger mass transport is a necessity which aims by Ditrén. To achieve this is focused on becoming an entity capable of moving the OMSA adapting to changing times, is to innovate and to meet the needs of transport people, but taking into account the market imposes new challenges every day.

"Thing is that it is very fashionable the word innovation." It is the OMSA, when we receive in 2004, had many buses, but the majority was not working. "As we enter had several weeks paralysed the institution" said.

A few days after taking the direction of OMSA, according to Ditrén, they had corrected some of the most basic flaws in buses and were launched.

Account with have remained that way for nearly eight years at the head of the institution.

Pointed out that a large part of the vehicle park u000aacquired in 1997, when was founded the OMSA, was found in 2004, and of which there are units that still work. "They are buses that almost magical way we have recovered and maintained.

Course, can be a fleet like this, but as you get older becomes greater the operating cost.

Ditrén explained that understanding the need to renovate the Park Gate of the OMSA was that in 2008 a tender was called, but that that opportunity did not obtain sufficient resources for 300 buses and barely achieved buy 102 units in 2009, indicating that this fleet had almost three years. "We must remember that in that year there was a global crisis impact in the country with a deficit in the country," explained.

The director of the OMSA referred to economic difficulties that has crossed the country from the crisis of 2008, which said, she is known by citizenship and its impact on the u000apublic finances.

Stressed that a final work of a master product arose a project he calls "Multimodal system for public mobility", proposed by the combination of many modes of transport for the definitive solution of the problem of transportation of passengers.

"What you are proposing in the draft is an explanation of how it has developed the first line and the construction of the second line of the Metro of Santo Domingo;" "How has operated and how many passengers carried and behavior, which has been well as identify the weaknesses of the system, among other things," explained Ditrén to LISTÍN DIARIO.

Director of the OMSA had already written a first book on the sector transport, which he titled: "History of transport in Dr, the canoe of the Taíno to Metro" and is now undergoing the second book on the subject: "present and future of transport in the Dr: proposals".

Indicated that u000awith the idea that took President Leonel Fernandez to build six lines of metro in Santo Domingo and the capital, would have to achieve an interconnection between various modes of transport.

He understood when applied the Metro feeder routes may be more effective this transport system, because until now starts at the station Mamá Tingó, in Villa Mella, but the generation of travel is in what is called "Bedroom towns", such as Sabana Perdida, El Torito, Punta, Guaricanos and others.

Explained that as citizens must take a transport in such origins not gonna pay RD$ 25 into a system for later removed to take the Metro and pay again, because it would duplicate what has to pay to reach your destination. "These are weaknesses that still affect subway, for what when this part is running, the results will be better," argued.

Now, explained, when you start the operation of u000athe second line of the Metro the OMSA has routes feeding the system themselves. For example, noted, the route of the rivers, which begins in that same community, comes out the Los Ríos Avenue, takes Los Próceres to make the journey and at various points touches the lines one and two of the subway, so it is ideal to provide a feeder of the metro system.

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The grand project of integration
Ignacio Ditrén is focused on converting to the Metropolitan Office of services de Autobuses (OMSA) in a large company of mixed capital, involving the public and private sectors with a single purpose: provide efficient transportation service to citizenship.

Explained that with the implementation of the proposed rental of buses passes in fact to be a joint venture because those who have these buses may check the finances of OMSA, as well as give their views and suggest things to improve service.

The u000aOMSA Director said that from now on you can ask or suggest any company or entity of drivers participate through a Union with the entity which he directs so that together they operate routes, with which will benefit all sectors, but particularly users because walk in new, comfortable and safe units.

On driver education, revealed that around 40% of OMSA drivers have passed by the national school of education road (Enevial), so the new drivers that handle the new units must also pass by this institution, because that way the service will improve.

"Is a comprehensive plan that includes several facets, which also envisages the integration of carriers." "The objective, to make a comparison, is to become a Transmilenio as that operates in Bogota," explained.

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