The Metro has transported to 68 MM of passengers in three years

Office for the reorganization of transport (Opret) starts from today trials in the transfer of the Santo Domingo Metro station with the users of the transport system, so they erected with the transfer between the two lines.

Passengers will be driven by the facilities of the station located in the Kennedy with Máximo Gómez by a staff that will show you what to do when making a transfer from one line to another.

Information was given by the owner of the Opret, Diandino Peña, who invited representatives of the media to the transfer station, with the celebration of the third year of operation of the first line of the Santo Domingo Metro.

Peña also reported, that in its three years of operation the Santo Domingo Metro has carried 68 million passengers, unless it has been reported an accident unfortunate.

"Gentlemen", u000aWe have saved each passenger, between 40 and 50 minutes on its way. "But if we make a mathematical exercise, each user of the Metro to enter and attach you an income for wage or adjustment of RD$ 80 an hour, they are saying that 45 minutes save you represent you about 60 or 65 pesos", added.

Said that translated into money the 68 million passengers, at the rate of 45 minutes per passenger, "we have given the equivalent of RD$ 1,600 million pesos".

peña explained that subway users have had substantial passage cost savings, because before Villa Mella fair paid between 35 and 40 pesos and with the use of the Metro pays 16 pesos less passenger.

"If you multiply 16 weights for each passenger in 68 million, we have a saving of their pockets of 1,100 million pesos," explained.

Reported that in the three years of operation of the subway, the 68 million passengers were transported in the u000athe me cars and the buses for passenger, calculations give six thousand passengers per hour, it would have been necessary to use me 900 tanks and about 40 minibuses and minibuses, which placed in a straight line extending from Villa Mella to the Kennedy.

"This fleet of vehicles we have shifted, if it had carried all these pasajros, you were consuming the country around 1,400 million pesos of fuel", stressed.

Added that the most important thing that has been achieved with this system of transport is the reduction of carbon monoxide.

Said that the profitability achieved in the country with the installation of the Santo Domingo Metro justify investment in the work.

Inter alia, Peña highlighted the fact that subway users maintain respect for the rules.

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News in second line of the structure
the transfer station will have an area u000acommercial, where the Metro users may purchase telephone services, Internet, as well as other public services.

Diandino Peña explained that this station has the particularity that the user may access, through the stairs, to the service in direction North, South, East or West.

"All of these areas are marked so that users of the Metro can move in due course without mishap and board the train that will take you to your destination," explained. It is recalled that in November of 2005, the Opret began excavations for the construction of the first line of the Metro and two years and three months later the President made the first journey.

The second line of the Metro began in November of 2008 and this month Leonel Fernandez premiere it.

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