Mono= Single
Rail=Rail
Sub=Under
Way=Passage


The train is running in a single(tary) like rail like is shown in the picture as he perceived that its course would be only as shown; However, if this same monorail goes underground as part as its route because the prefix "sub" means under and way means passage, therefore "subway." If the course of this train in this picture had consistently and continuously been as shown in the picture for all its stops it would indeed be only a monorail. However because it also contains stops under terrain, ground and such, it qualifies as well Subway. Get it?

I think I can tell the differernces netween the prefixes and suffixes of each word, but thank you for taking the time to teach me things I already know. Truly appreciate it!

Anyways, the SD subway will have more than one single line. Below is a master plan of the SD Metro System:

glimmer, a fine holiday season to you too. and, my ideas on the subway will never change. it was a severe waste of money on a project which, in my opinion, pales in order of priority when compared to deficiences such as education and health care. great for bragging rights, but little else. NOBODY has proven that it has achieved its objectives, and the pathetic ridership figures bear out my prediction that it was underanalysed, by a bunch of amateurs. nobody can show the effects on reduction of carbon particulates and traffic jams. it is the quintessential white elephant, and the government isn's smart enough to quit while it is behind. so, they will build all the lines, bankrupt the treasury with subsidies to keep it running, and it will not achieve the results it is supposed to.

Eriliza interrogates

how is the subway a monorail

i would reply to that, but the moderator might become displeased.

I seriously doubt it, dread (Merry Christmas, by the way) since there are worse offenders out there (Christian), which should have been kicked out by now, and have been given "carte blanche", so to speak. So enlighten the forum at pleasure, my friend.

thanks, Mr Lautaro. and a Merry Christmas to one and all, and a festive holiday season. God Bless you and all your families.

Invi y Opret entregan 56 apartamentos a familias desalojadas por obras Metro

Santo Domingo. El Instituto Nacional de la Vivienda y la Oficina para el Reordenamiento del Transporte entregaron 56 apartamentos a los moradores del sector La Zurza desalojados para darle paso a las obras civiles del Metro.

La obra está compuesta por siete edificios de ocho apartamentos, cada uno con tres habitaciones, sala, comedor, cocina, un baño, balcón y área de lavado.

Asimismo, el complejo posee drenaje pluvial, calles asfaltadas, desagüe de aguas negras, jardín, luces, parqueo y otras comodidades.

En tanto, las autoridades mudaron a 50 familias de las que faltan por entregarle apartamentos a las antiguas casas construidas por la Opret a las orillas del río Isabela hasta tanto se termine el complejo entero.

El grupo de familias que falta por apartamentos, 122 en total, serán entregados a mediados del próximo año, según dijo Carmiña Restituyo, quien fungió como vocera del grupo de beneficiados.

Las familias beneficiadas con los apartamentos, empezaron a mudarse a su nueva casa.

Restituyo dijo que las autoridades del gobierno cumplieron la promesa y agregó que ya se anunció la construcción de la segunda etapa de los apartamentos que se construirán para alojar las 122 familias restantes.

Estos apartamentos serán construidos en un área contigua a los recién inaugurados.

"Vamos a pasar la nochebuena en una casa decente, como vive la gente, con dignidad", Mariano Rosario uno de los beneficiados con uno de los apartamentos.

SOURCE: http://www.diariolibre.com/noticias_det.php?id=228681

Segunda línea Metro está muy avanzada
Ferrocarriles. Tendrá 22 estaciones soterradas

Escrito por: Yanet Féliz

SANTO DOMINGO.- Los trabajos de la segunda línea del Metro de Santo Domingo, específicamente en el trébol de la avenida Luperón con el kilómetro 9 de la autopista Duarte, avanzan aceleradamente.

Brigadas de firmas contratistas de la Oficina para el Reordenamiento del Transporte (Opret) manejan diversas máquinas retroexcavadoras que profundizan en los túneles de trincheras abiertas para dar paso al sistema vial, que pretende agilizar el tránsito por el trayecto desde Los Alcarrizos a San Isidro.

Además de esas labores, obreros trabajan en la elaboración de las pilas, así como en los canastos en hierro o soportes que serán colocados en esa terminal, donde se proyecta la reubicación de los kioscos adyacentes instalados por el Ayuntamiento Santo Domingo Oeste, que aglutina a decenas de vendedores de mercancías diversas.

Según versiones recogidas en la zona, la Opret hace los estudios correspondientes con esa finalidad.

Reporteros de EL DÍA trataron en horas de la tarde de contactar a Leonel Carrasco, subdirector de la entidad, a fin de que explique parte del ambicioso proyecto que incluye cinco nuevas líneas, en adición a la primera que recorre desde Villa Mella hasta el Centro de los Héroes.

La segunda línea contará con alrededor de 24 estaciones o paradas y facilidades similares a las establecidas en el primer tramo, inaugurado a principios del año 2008.

Recorrido
La segunda línea del Metro está proyectada en 22 kilómetros y medio de longitud y contará con unas 24 estaciones soterradas.

Soterrado Arranca en Los Alcarrizos y recorrerá la autopista Duarte , John F. Kennedy, V Centenario, La 17, San Vicente de Paúl y carretera Mella

SOURCE: http://www.eldia.com.do/nacionales/2010/1/7/16260/Segunda-linea-Metro-esta-muy-avanzada

DREAD:
I agree with the statement just mentioned by you 100% . The subways construction as priority #1 by the present administraion leaving behind all others. True the construction is going ahead as must capitalinos see it on borrowed money ,but at what expense ? It is very easy to take all the treassury and put it to work for them in that particular project in a very irresponsable way, and use the nation as colateral .Why can't the capitalinos pay for their project out of their municipal budget? ,why must they use the national budget ? Am sure there are other things as you just mentioned above that are priority All these are subsidies by the central or national gvt for a few .The cost to ride the system will be beyond their income,specialy now when ZONA FRANCA and the industrial sector is pulling out due to lock of electric power to run their machinaries in the factories.that gave people jobs.
How does this project helps the rest of the country?,aside of stealing electricity from the national grid to feed this capricious (L.F) igo and stupidity at the expense of bankrupting the central government. The Capital of a country is not the entire country, further more mass-transit is built for the poor mass as a mean of transportation to their jobs location and back. Unless multiple power plants are built along with the subways to supply it and atract investor on jobs creation, there is not need to continue this madness.
All the mass transit of the world were built by their own respective local municipality wih their budget as the needs aroused and private enterpice. A good Example was the BMT in NYC made up of 15 private companies, untill the State bought them as they were going under and made it as known today as "BROOKLYN MANHATTAN TRANSIT". The IRT and the IND were built by the State and City of NY as needed in 1903 and 1935 respectively but they all had their power plant except the IND which purchased their power from PSE&G and LILco and CON EDISON, the latter became a distribution network aside of generating 25 cycles for the first two in 1959 with a frequecy converter.

Posted by THELMO ALMEYDA RANCIER(ret. MTA/NYCTA
01/08/2010 at 10;55 pm