Traffic lights out of service create chaos in the process of the DN

15% Of the traffic lights installed in central park and no central register of the National District are out of service, which causes chaos in traffic and sometimes accidents of vehicles.

Director of Tránsito terrestrial, Luis Estrella, explained to LISTÍN DIARIO there are eleven traffic lights out of service, including three muted in the polygon central of the National District and eight with flashing lights; while 27 others outside the polygon central face problems, with which added 38 traffic lights that are not running in the capital, of a total of 260 installed.

Traffic lights that remain muted in the Distrito Nacional are the intersections Rómulo Betancourt with Isabel Aguiar, Ortega y Gasset with Nicolás de Ovando, and Ortega y Gasset with Pedro Livio Cedeño; while eight intermittent workers are those of Gustavo Mejía Ricart with Ortega y Gasset, Doctor Defilló with Guarocuya, Wiston Churchill with u000aIndependence, Euclid Morillo with extension Lope de Vega, Tiradentes with Emilio Morel and Lope de Vega with Carlos Sánchez.

Various traffic lights the capital often suffer breakdowns at important intersections of avenues and problems it takes months to be solved.

The traffic lights at the intersection of the Enrique Jiménez Moya (extension Winston Churchill) and independence avenues has more than one broken, month resulting in accidents, disputes between drivers and a series of inconveniences of tamponade that is generated by the lack of this distributor of transit.

Blockages
these pathways are used en masse because it leads to one of the largest conglomerates of public offices in the Centre of the Constance heroes, Maimon and Estero Hondo, which includes the Supreme Court of Justice, Attorney General of the Republic, Congress, national lottery, City Council District u000aNational League Municipal Dominican, Ministry of labour, Corporación Dominicana de State-owned electric companies and National Institute of hydraulic resources.

Despite the time that presents damages this semaphore, not have been placed agents of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Amet) to control traffic.

Some drivers of public transport of passengers surveyed complained of the delay in the solution of a problem to understand simple.

Star recognizes that some traffic lights take much time out of service, primarily seven that were affected with the construction of the second line of the subway, whose repair, he said, is the responsibility of the company that built this road public transport system, "which was repaired in a given time and six months later they have not resolved".

Between the lights affected with the construction of the second line of the Metro of Santo Domingo, u000aStar cited the intersections of Máximo Gómez with John f. Kennedy, Maria Montez with Pedro Livio Cedeño, Moca with Pedro Livio Cedeño and Marcos Ruiz, Américo Lugo with Maria Montez, Manuel Peña Batlle with Maria Montez, Manuel Cáceres with Maria Montez and Máximo Gómez with Santiago.

The delay and the lack of spare parts
Tránsito terrestrial director attributed the delay to repair the damaged lights, Consortium Icontrolt-Global Capital, which was awarded the maintenance of the distributors of transit, purchase spare parts in Spain and they are slow in coming to the country once are orders.

"The information he has given us that company when we asked the repair of these intersections is that they made the request, since November but it seems that the holidays have delayed their arrival," said star.

Said that Icontrolt informed that boarding is already on the way to the country and that in u000aThis month will come to repair those traffic lights which are damaged, because there are no pieces in the country.

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