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SANTO DOMINGO. - President Leonel Fernandez last night received Spain’s Transport minister, Manuel Lamela and Madrid’s Metro director Idelfonso Matías, whom gave him the go-ahead to board the Santo Domingo Metro (subway) tomorrow February 27, and keep his promise to ride the train after his annual address to Congress.

"The president can make his test ride with his guests in line one of the Metro, without any risk," said Lamela in a press conference in the National Palace. He said Santo Domingo’s subway will be a reference for Latin America, because it was built in record time, with top quality and the lowest budget. He praised the Dominican engineers, whom in his view made an impressive work.

In yesterday’s test run, the train left at 11:05 a.m. from the central Isabela station and six minutes later reached Villa Mella, the northernmost station named "Mamá Tingó." It then returned to the point of departure, made a brief stop and went on to the southernmost station “Centro de los Heroes,” a run which took 15 minutes.

The government Transport Office (Opret) confirmed the names of the stations: starting in Villa Mella, Mamá Tingó, then Gregorio Urbano Gillbert; Gregorio Luperón; Jose Francisco Peña Gomez; Hermanas Mirabal; Maximiliano Gomez; Los Taínos; Pédro Livio Cedeño; Peña Batlle; Juan Pablo Duarte; Juan Bosch; Casandra Damirón; Joaquin Balaguer; Amín Abel; Francisco Alberto Caamaño and the last, Centro de los Heroes.

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12 comment(s)
Written by: bernies, 26 Feb 2008 1:41 PM
From: United States, key west fl
there you go PRD and PRSC parties, the metro is going to be running wether you like it or not. you are going to have to eat it anyway thanks god leonel will stay in power for another four more years.

Written by: Perception, 26 Feb 2008 2:33 PM
From: United States
Enjoy as long as you can !!!
Written by: malva70997, 26 Feb 2008 2:43 PM
From: Dominican Republic
To Bernies: of course, the metro will run no matter what because the thieves in government decided that it would be so, meanwhile we still have make-shift schools under trees, people without proper medical care, many without homes still living in shelters, main streets full of craters, electricity available only 10 hours a day (if you're lucky), schools without chairs, small businesses going bankrupt because of the lack of electricity and high cost of keeping a generator, etc.
Written by: malva70997, 26 Feb 2008 2:48 PM
From: Dominican Republic
...PERO TENEMOS METRO
Written by: TFISKE This user is banned, 26 Feb 2008 3:08 PM
From: Canada, Alberta
Malva,
Why didn't the previous goverment fix this problem?

sounds like you voted for them..

They goverment has spend money on roads look around and they are re investing look around


Written by: Perception, 26 Feb 2008 3:15 PM
From: United States
Enjoy as long as you can !!!
Written by: malva70997, 26 Feb 2008 4:07 PM
From: Dominican Republic
to TFISKE:

For your information I voted for Leonel, and believe it or not, I will probably vote for him again; but voting for one president doesn't mean that you agree with everything he does. the fact that the previous government didn't fix these problems is not an excuse for him to ignore the fact that the country has other priorities, the previous government was made up of a bunch of crooks who did nothing for the country. Leonel is not bad, he just doesn't have his priorities straight.
Written by: lcabrera, 26 Feb 2008 6:58 PM
From: United States
Bahahahahahahahahahahaha Mamá Tingó hahaha
Written by: ny4life, 26 Feb 2008 8:42 PM
From: United States, New York, NY
Great project. A sign of modernizing in the Dominican. IT will tremendously help the citizens in Santo Domingo. I'm excited to hop on the metro myself. Once the finishing touches are made, the metro will be a masterpiece.
Written by: brugalymamajauna, 26 Feb 2008 10:57 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Miami
Tenemos Metro .....solo asi falta nieve ..............
Written by: El_Dominicano, 27 Feb 2008 1:18 PM
From: United States
Though we can all agree that there are many issues that need government attention in the Dominican Republic, it is critical that we also realize that the Government has many different priorities. One of their priorities should be to provide aid to the inpoverished people who need it. Another priority would be to improve on the Educational Infrastructure of the country. But at the same time, a priority of the Government should be to modernize the country and assist in easing the level of pollution and overcrowding that exists in today's world of transportation. The addition of the Metro will accomplish many things. 1) It will help reduce the chaos of transportation by encouraging public transportation 2) Reduce pollution level caused by above mentioned chaos.
Many folks are too quick to point out when the government pumps money into other projects/priorities. I've been in Management for years, and one thing that you learn is that there will always be multiple issues on the table that
Written by: Johnnyc, 27 Feb 2008 1:27 PM
From: United States
The station names are very interesting!!!
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