They ask for repair of track in Jarabacoa

More than fifteen rural township communities are cut off due to the State of destruction that presents the main road which unites them with Jarabacoa and La Vega.

The deterioration of the road is such that economic and tourist development has decreased, public transport is null and students may not have access to schools, so its inhabitants claim to the Government the urgent completion of this important road.

Is about five miles of road by its progressive deterioration prevents merchants to stock up on edible products that offer their businesses. Filled with small owners express that suppliers cannot access these communities, and for this reason have been forced to carry goods that sell motorcycles at a more expensive price for the consumer.

Multiple resorts in the area have reduced their demands to u000acontrary to previous years when this road, called Ruta de Las Flores, was less level of deterioration.

The owner of the tourist complex Los huts field Indigo, Eunice Marmolejos, expresses that "the development of these villages is stalemate because what motoriza productivity is the road and does not work". Says that they request to the authorities of the Government to give him the completion, because even though its construction was approved and in that time they built sidewalks and contenes, for nearly two years that is abandoned and in State critic.

Adds that to the difficulty of access to these areas, already visitors who did his own these ecological places have diminished the frequency with which slept in the different Resorts located on the route of the route of the flowers. Observed in the villages located around this road are transported in motorcycles edible products and materials u000afor construction, and brought to houses and shops whose owners explain that they have no other way how to get what they need, in addition to that get it extremely expensive request these orders to large business of the city by the high cost of transport.

The pedáneo Mayor, Luis Manuel Marte, understands that what is most worrying for the inhabitants of these communities is that "neither the drivers want to travel there claiming that they will not continue destroying their vehicles".

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A timeout that takes several years
the construction of the road to Las Flores carries more than 12 years in the process, since the former President Hipólito Mejía promised and even took some teams when he sought re-election in 2004, but never met residents in those communities.

Say that now in campaign returned former President Mejía to promise the road but they no longer believe in politicians.

"That is why I" u000a"We hope President Leonel Fernandez, the only one so far has shown interest of truth to finish the work, to fulfil that promise," said the Mayor Luis Manuel Mars.

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