Unicaribe. Photo mfranjul.com
SANTO DOMINGO. – A protest by students of the university Unicaribe led to chaos and a major traffic jam Wednesday, when demonstrators shouted demands that the authorities install a pedestrian bridge and concrete dividers for their protection.
The Unicaribe “campus,” which was built without planning right on the seaside highway (Malecon) and within residential neighborhoods, has grown without providing parking lots for its now tens of thousand of students.
The protest, with chants of "no more deaths, we want a bridge," comes after months of accidents including two fatalities, of students trying to cross the road, defying the vehicles driving at high speeds.
Santo Domingo mayor Roberto Salcedo has rejected the request, noting that Unicaribe is in fact trying to illegally obtain a parking long on the shoreline, which is part of a protected area.
Adding to the woes, the residents around the facility have been often forced to sell their homes to Unicaribe, after the morass has led to lower property values.
Written by: zooma, 29 Mar 2012 9:03 AM
From: United States
This is what the citizens get when they don't hold the politicians and government officials feet to the fire to force them to make developers comply with planning and building codes.
Developer money buys blindness.
From: United States, FREEPORT, Long Island.... ((You're blind to the fact that you're blind))
The only planning that goes on in the dominican republic, is the planning of defrauding the public.
Written by: DomLon, 29 Mar 2012 9:28 AM
From: United Kingdom
What a mess unless you have strict land use planning what is the point of building the Metro. This site should be demolished.
From: United States, FREEPORT, Long Island.... ((You're blind to the fact that you're blind))
Makeshift University? I guess these 10,000 student will be transferred to the new one in haiti
From: Dominican Republic
DomLon,
I'm not sure if I following your comment, but are you saying that in UK, first they build the metro and/or subway and then you put whatever building are deemed necessary along the way??
Written by: DR_guy, 29 Mar 2012 9:50 AM
From: Dominican Republic
A "Conundrum may refer to:
a. A riddle whose answer is or involves a pun or unexpected twist
b. A logical postulation that evades resolution, an intricate and difficult problem
No pun when people are getting killed so I guess it is b
From: United States, FREEPORT, Long Island.... ((You're blind to the fact that you're blind))
Ark,
that is exactly what leo is planning with the metro, he is going to use his sudden wealth to do so, he has been saying SDQ is a little NYC, leo may be thinking of "7" train or the "A" train. What good is a metro if the stops are out of the way of your travel.
From: United States, FREEPORT, Long Island.... ((You're blind to the fact that you're blind))
I see now.....My first comment was a collective statement and my other two were pinpointing a particular. OKay Okay , I got it now...
Oh Well!!!!
From: Dominican Republic
RobertoJose,
Regardless of President Fernandez comparison with the "Big Apple", the fact is that the current working Metro line has a daily ridership of over 100 thousand a day, from Monday to Friday. Plus, it intercepts with the major east-west avenues in Santo Domingo Oeste (John F. Kennedy and 27 De Febrero). For many, this represent one less fare they have to pay, even when it does not provide you with door to door service. :)
From: United States, In the place to be
"residents around the facility have been often forced to sell their homes to Unicaribe, after the morass has led to lower property values."
Morass? What's this The Wall Street Journal, now?
From: United States
They should do everything in their power to help the college students. Ten thousand in college is fantastic the college and government should both work together to resolve this. I believe the game Frogger was created after watching people try to cross a highway in Dominican where running red light is normal and no one enforcing the traffic laws. What is the reason the police trucks drive up and down the highways with the lights flashing yet never stop a speeder or red light runner. They could fully fund the bridge in a single month IF THEY ENFORCED THE TRAFFIC LAWS
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
Tipico. Leave the problem unattended and let it fester.
Then you get yourself a big crisis involving the innocent by-stander students.
I don't see a solution for another 10 years.
From: United States, FREEPORT, Long Island.... ((You're blind to the fact that you're blind))
Right On , Polo
Written by: Escott, 29 Mar 2012 3:54 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Cabrera and Sosua a 2 days a month for payday
Police enforce traffic laws?? I constantly see the police going the wrong way down a one way street in pick up trucks. I see them on motorcycles without helmets talking on their cell phones. The police stop me to remind me that Christmas is coming and sometimes I get stopped 3x in an hour asking for money.
Written by: josean, 29 Mar 2012 4:01 PM
From: United States, Fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia; Guillermo Moreno President 2016
Escott,
I thought that those were things of the pre -modernist past; according to Atabey in Lie-onel's Little Purple New York aka MERTOLANDIA those things don’t happen anymore?
Written by: DomLon, 30 Mar 2012 9:54 AM
From: United Kingdom
"I'm not sure if I following your comment, but are you saying that in UK, first they build the metro and/or subway and then you put whatever building are deemed necessary along the way?? "
Not exactly - but you should confine developemnts with strong transport demand to those locations where there is transport provision, Therefore a new university should be built closer to existing transport faciilities or if a new line to planned it is developed with regard to teh transport network/land use planning. Similalry freight distribution depots should be alimited to proximity to a motorway junction for easy access. At the moment in Santo DoOmingo there is no effective land use planning - so rather than build an expensive metro an extnsive bus network would be a better and cheaper option.
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This is what the citizens get when they don't hold the politicians and government officials feet to the fire to force them to make developers comply with planning and building codes.
Developer money buys blindness.
I'm not sure if I following your comment, but are you saying that in UK, first they build the metro and/or subway and then you put whatever building are deemed necessary along the way??
a. A riddle whose answer is or involves a pun or unexpected twist
b. A logical postulation that evades resolution, an intricate and difficult problem
No pun when people are getting killed so I guess it is b
that is exactly what leo is planning with the metro, he is going to use his sudden wealth to do so, he has been saying SDQ is a little NYC, leo may be thinking of "7" train or the "A" train. What good is a metro if the stops are out of the way of your travel.
Oh Well!!!!
Regardless of President Fernandez comparison with the "Big Apple", the fact is that the current working Metro line has a daily ridership of over 100 thousand a day, from Monday to Friday. Plus, it intercepts with the major east-west avenues in Santo Domingo Oeste (John F. Kennedy and 27 De Febrero). For many, this represent one less fare they have to pay, even when it does not provide you with door to door service. :)
Morass? What's this The Wall Street Journal, now?
Then you get yourself a big crisis involving the innocent by-stander students.
I don't see a solution for another 10 years.
Escott,
I thought that those were things of the pre -modernist past; according to Atabey in Lie-onel's Little Purple New York aka MERTOLANDIA those things don’t happen anymore?
Not exactly - but you should confine developemnts with strong transport demand to those locations where there is transport provision, Therefore a new university should be built closer to existing transport faciilities or if a new line to planned it is developed with regard to teh transport network/land use planning. Similalry freight distribution depots should be alimited to proximity to a motorway junction for easy access. At the moment in Santo DoOmingo there is no effective land use planning - so rather than build an expensive metro an extnsive bus network would be a better and cheaper option.