i have personally seen the highway construction work and it looks like it is almost finish. lets hope that a least this project is complete by the date that they are saying. one down two more to go.

Does anyone know when the Samana highway is going to be completed, as in really finished?

last time I drove to Las Terrenas, the Highway was completed. The last bridge was operational.

Its a nice drive, day or night.

Nice drive during the day yes, at night I would be very careful!

Is to much to ask to have lights!

EL PUENTE DE LA 17 ES UNA VERDADERA “BOCA DE LOBO”

Vías oscuras son un peligro


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Well I travel a lot at night and my vehicle is prepared for night driving ie: good lights, fog and spot lights so a highway with no lights is not a problem for me.
I did go by a lot of vehicles that had poor driving lights.
Anyway there are reflectors on both sides of the road and on the median.

My .02 cents

Sigma,

I am glad you take those precautions and equip your vehicle with the appropriate illumination devices for night driving, but the reality is that you are among the very few and far between that do or can afford to. So you and I will probably not run into each other or others, but the great majority poses a threat to you and me and everybody else.

That’s why the roads need lights especially the new Samana road for which they are charging a very high toll.

Josean I agree with you.

From what I hear it was a private project and I know the tolls are high even if it cuts travel time by more than 3 hours.
Whose responsibility is it to provide the lighting. Keeping in mind there is no electricity in most of the countryside?

It is a private franchise, a Columbian construction company. The claim nobody told them they wanted lights. So in this Wild West frontier type of a country who knows who telling the true lie the government or the contractor!

Remember this is a country where the Presidente takes out $150,000,000 million dollar loan in violation of the constitution and the courts state only the congress has the authority to ask for redress in the courts: Thereby violating the equal right of every Dominican citizen to petition the courts to review wrongdoing unless you are an elected member of the national legislature. Even then I think it must be either the president of the chamber of deputies or the president of the senate.

Of course that ruling would have been different if another political party held the majority.

Continued:

They may have asked the petitioning attorneys to say:

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious a 1000 times while standing on the heads under water without taking a breath, even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious!

I understand that the US is a much safer country than DR when it comes to crime. However, here in upstate NY where I live, our highways are dark and we get along just fine; that is in spite of fact that we are subjected to adverse weather and heavy snow, whiteouts, black ice and heavy winds-not to mention an overabundance of geriatric drivers.

Since there really aren't any free rides, adding lights to this highway will only serve to increase toll cost fro everyone, including those who only travel in daylight. This being a private and limited access road should be fairly safe, so perhaps we shouldn't burden all users with resultant cost from providing benefits targeting but a few. Perhaps those of you would be better off equipping your vehicles with appropriate lights, or carrying a licensed firearm for protection. Trust me, it could prove infinitely less expensive.

this is sad very sad, i just have a few weeks visiting this site, and the only thing i see is a grows amount of pessimism :b

Installing lights would be extremely costly, and they wouldn't stay in place very long anyway, the cable thieves would make sure that the roads remain dark. In my neighborhood if we want street lights, we have to pay for them, so all of us pay annually to make sure our part of the street is lit up at night.

Driving on that road right now at night in the rain is very dangerous with no lines on the road and on coming cars and trucks that cant seem to find their highbeam switch. But it sure is a nice scenic route in the daytime.
Sure beats the heck out of the way we had to go before.