Santo Domingo. – Once the tunnel at the avenue Ortega & Gasset is opened to traffic in November, Tiradentes and Lope de Vega avenues will become one way streets, north-south and south-north directions, respectively.

The National District City Council evaluates the proposal to determine the best way improve traffic in and around the city’s financial center and university campuses, in addition to the sectors La Fe, El Vergel and Arroyo Hondo, among others,.

The City Council said it plans to implement road pairs, via which one avenue will be one way in one direction, while traffic in the adjacent thoroughfare will flow opposite of that.

Tomorrow Wednesday the Council City also plans to discuss ways to improve traffic in the busy Centro de los Heroes (La Feria), together withy officials from the Public Works Ministry, and the Metropolitan Transit Authority.

“We already agreed on the proposal in La Fe, from Kennedy avenue to Pedro Livio Cedeño, and from Ortega & Gasset to Maximo Gomez; in Arroyo Hondo, perpendicular to the store La Americana,” said City Council Transit director Andrés Martínez.

He said there’s still nothing concrete regarding Churchill and Lincoln avenues, although a road pair is being considered.