Santo Domingo.- The Santo Domingo Metro today underwent another test run along the 17- kilometer-long route from Villa Mella in the north to the La Feria station in front of the Government offices, with some 300 invited passengers.

After the ride, Transit Office (Opret) director Diandino Peña said the subway underwent its most rigorous test run on that type of system to date. “The wagons ran as expected and the foreign technicians will render a report to president (Leonel) Fernandez before the 27th of February,” date on which the chief executive said he would take the inaugural run.

In that regard, Madrid Metro executive Manuel Lamena said the train was subjected to the standards of that city’s mass transit system, which he said “is the best in the world.”