Question?......if you took josean and a full groown sewer rat to the top of this building and dropped they off ,which one would hit ground first ?...get your calculators out

The answer.......Who Cares?

Could this be the reason the aquifer is tainted with fecal matter.

lol....Pathetic. The dominican republics world class construction projects is as equivalent as Pimping out a 1981 caprice classic with 24" spinner rims, chrome rolls royce front grill and velour seats with big buttons.

Santo Calcutta!

PURPLE Urban Planning at its best!

the area around Naco and Piantini is a total disgrace ..with not sufficient planning and not sufficient water if there is a fire and no sewerage plans ..who would want to live there

when i questioned the ability of the infrastructure to support the construction, i distinctly remember one poster asking me if i thought that they would build these buildings without such carrying ability. now he has his answer.

-Do not sit still and wait for the quake above 8 - u do not want to be buried there do u??

I wonder if Leonel would willingly get his kidneys removed on felix bautistas recommendation

Dread, I believe we both had these concerns 3yrs back, Imagine everyone flushed at 530 AM Monday morning after a long weekend of boozing and eating fried pig ears, tail and chimmi churias

@dreamkiller




lol

Excellent post!

Do only people to blame are the Buyers.


For the Vast majority of people their home is the single most important investment of their entire lives.

Not to perform due diligence is unforgivable. Having seen Dominican Construction methods up close and personal I would never live in any of those highrises without a thorough inspection and study.

Speaking of Sewer Rats!

BTW Josean


One of the biggest developers of Highrises in the D.R. is a major player in the P.R.D.......Oh and he is a huge crook as well. He garners lots of government building contracts and steals the supplies to build his private projects. Has made millions.

Maybe a new capital or a series of new towns is called for. These can be ecological, sustainable etc. with few cars.

UK, Brazil and now China has this solution.

High residential units in cities have been demolished the World over. Time to start on Santo Domingo.

Some of the residential blocks are hideous and destroy the cityscape of SD.

S.

Alpha,

Please present your EVIDENCE to the authorities so he/she is charged, tried and if found guilty locked up for the rest of his or her life!

Sadly, we live in a country where there is no difference between doing something, and doing it well.

but you the have the choo choo train.
and the blue plaza.

choo choo
all aboard.

love to see what happens with all the traffic in santo domingo, no water pressure and so on.
if there is a fire in one of theses expensive buildings??

choo choo train
all aboard.

hey! the euro is at 1.23 today.

My house which is single story with a sotano is about 150 years old and during the small quakes over the last year in and around the capital I have noticed that the cracks have grown and I have had to reswing some doors and this a house on huge foundations ..as were most of the old homes in zona colonial and the dranes work well ,,I can not imagine what it would be like to live on level 30 of a building in the capital with unknown weight bearing columns holding the building up

Here a little more info on the topic:


"Santo Domingo, city of skyscrapers and the challenges"


A report in Listin Diario today gives insights into infrastructure problems created by the many new skyscrapers that dot neighborhoods in Santo Domingo. The towers have gone up where in the past there were single-family homes. Now the president of the Dominican College of Engineers and Architects, Domingo Tavera Ulloa alerts that infrastructural services have not kept up with the planting of the towers all throughout the city landscape.

continued:

According to the registry at the Urban Planning of the Santo Domingo Municipality (ADN), between 2010 and 2011 alone there were 459 permits granted for constructions or remodeling of buildings with more than two floors. Of these 65% will be over four floors. As reported, in Santo Domingo permits have been given for the construction of buildings of more than 14 floors in El Millon (25), Naco (17), Piantini (16), and Gazcue (9), the areas where the largest concentration of towers has been built in the past two years.

At the same time of the increase in high rises, there has been an increase in vehicle ownership. Department of Taxes (DGII) statistics indicate that 31% of all the vehicles in the country circulate in the 97.7 kms of the National District (Santo Domingo), the capital city. At present there is a deficit of parking. As a consequence, sidewalks and parking on narrow city streets has aggravated traffic bottlenecks.

continued:

Demands for drinking water supply have also increased considerably. The director of the city water corporation (CAASD), Freddy Perez says this can be resolved by piping in water from Hatillo, located in San Cristobal, or making a water dam sourcing water from Haina River. The CAASD serves 351,075 million gallons a day to the city, for an estimated population of 3,339,410 persons in the Greater Santo Domingo area of 200 kms. He says the situation has worsened because installations that were designed to serve a single home and six persons now are connected to the high rises, serving 60 or 70 people at the same time. Likewise, where only two bags of garbage were generated by the family, now 40 bags of garbage need to be disposed of.

National District Mayor Roberto Salcedo told the newspaper's reporter that work is ongoing on the indicative zoning on densities to allow orderly vertical growth. Salcedo is in his third term as National District mayor.

continued:

Transport specialist Oneximo Gonzalez said the problems the city suffers is for lack of adequate city management.

DR1


Understatement!

The WHOLE Country suffers from LACK OF MANAGEMENT!

"At the same time of the increase in high rises, there has been an increase in vehicle ownership. Department of Taxes (DGII) statistics indicate that 31% of all the vehicles in the country circulate in the 97.7 kms of the National District (Santo Domingo), the capital city.'


Now I thought the METRO had solved the need for vehicle ownership in Santo Calcutta?

Department of Taxes (DGII) statistics indicate that 31% of all the vehicles in the country circulate in the 97.7 kms of the National District (Santo Domingo), the capital city. At present there is a deficit of parking. As a consequence, sidewalks and parking on narrow city streets has aggravated traffic bottlenecks. "

If so, you have answered your question: Why is the Metro and its connecting bus services needed? 31% of vehicular traffic along just 97.7 kilometers of the SD.

As for the lack of sewage system links and modernization, this is old news. DR has done a terrible job of providing these services. In Havana, Cuba, the system is disintegrating and with a built capacity of 500,000 homes, it's hugely overtaxed. DR needs to collect 20-25% of PIB and use the added resources to build the infrastructure needed to support all these developments. It's the same story for much of Latin America and can be traced to the colonial administrations and elite attitudes towards national development. Low taxes and high tax evasion. At some point, this will need to change for people seek modernity and you can't create and sustain public services and economic externalities on the back of low public investments. 20-25% of PIB. China and many other Asian nations pump in well over 30-40% of their PIB.

Perhaps some of the 10 billion dollars in investment funding by China for the region will go to facilitate much needed infrastructure in DR.

China is thinking of using some of their savings for investments in western infrastructure.

China eyes western infrastructure

By Jamil Anderlini in Beijing and George Parker in London

China Investment Corporation, the country’s main sovereign wealth fund, plans to invest in the dilapidated infrastructure of developed countries, starting with the UK, according to Lou Jiwei, the fund’s chairman.

The $410bn Chinese fund “is keen to team up with fund managers or participate through a public-private partnership in the UK infrastructure sector as an equity investor”, Mr Lou writes in an opinion article in Monday’s Financial Times.

Emerging Markets Are Going To Spend A Massive $6 Trillion On Infrastructure In The Next Three Years

Frank Holmes|May 28, 2011|

Each week, more than one million people are either born in or migrate to cities around the world.
Much of this rapid urbanization comes from the emerging world, putting tremendous pressure on that country’s feeble infrastructure.

Pipes burst, roads are jammed, the water is tainted and the lights even go out.

Merrill Lynch estimates that $6 trillion will need to be spent by selected emerging market countries over the next three years to meet the basic needs of these citizens. Water, transportation and energy investments will consume the bulk of these funds, accounting for 82 percent of total projected spending. Nearly every emerging market country Merrill researched will make an investment in all three.


While each developing country could benefit from an upgrade, needs vary.

This table details how different emerging market countries stand up against each other in terms of quality for the country’s roads, rails, ports, etc. We’ve highlighted the specific areas where the countries rank in the bottom half among the 133 surveyed by the World Bank.

You can see that Brazil has the worst overall ranking among the countries listed. Though the country is a large exporter, the extremely poor condition of the country’s roads and rails has hampered the growth of internal textile and farming industries. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel for the country, as the government already has a plan in place to improve these conditions (Read: Brazil’s Infrastructure Plays Catch Up).

India’s infrastructure also rates poorly, and is slowing the country’s ascent to top of the world’s economies (Read: India’s Achilles Heel). One of India’s key issues is electricity. Merrill says that nearly 40 percent of Indian households do not have access to electricity, the

One of India’s key issues is electricity. Merrill says that nearly 40 percent of Indian households do not have access to electricity, the worst of any major developing economy.

Power is also a problem in South Africa where a major power plant has not been built in 20 years and blackouts/power outages have hurt the country’s mining industry in recent years. Merrill projects $54 billion will need to be spent on the country’s power system over the next three years, accounting for nearly half total infrastructure spending.

China, which accounts for more than half of that $6 trillion estimate, ranks far above emerging peers in terms of infrastructure at the 65th percentile. Merrill says that one of China’s biggest needs is in water and environmental development. The firm estimates that the Asian country will need to build roughly 40,000 reservoirs at Rmb 12.5 million a piece to create an internal water distribution system and alleviate pressure when regions experience extended droug

The firm estimates that the Asian country will need to build roughly 40,000 reservoirs at Rmb 12.5 million a piece to create an internal water distribution system and alleviate pressure when regions experience extended droughts such as what China is seeing presently.

The needs of a growing global population set to reach 7 billion later this year and investment needed to supply these people with sufficient water, roads, housing and power is why we identified infrastructure as a megatrend in 2007 and made it the key investment theme of the Global MegaTrends Fund (MEGAX).

The fact is that if you don’t control the disorganized building no matter how many USELESS METROs you build it will never be enough if you put all the development in one basket i.e. Santo Calcutta!

An immediate moratorium on building of 5 to 7 years, with strict zoning and occupancy regulations must be developed along with the bad word ENFORCEMENT, while at the same time rotating investment incentives throughout the country to disincentivize the flight to the Capital!


This will allow the capital's infrastructure to catch up and bring the city back to manageable levels.

Josean ..just cutting and pasting from DR! ..we can all go there and read it too and just shows how little he knows about where his metro even goes to and from ..nowhere near the areas in question here

What you don't like are full stories, since you like to pick, choose and doctor things like the Distorting PURPLE SPINMEISTER you are.

@ricardolito

Dont even bother answering Joseano.. He got no arguments to answer back to you..The only way he can react is went he fires back with his psychosis and his nonsense metro-purple bla bla bla


Joseano suffer from pathological lying , and it is considered a mental illness, because it takes over rational judgement and progresses into his "purple-metro" - fantasy world and back.

Dont even bother answering to his false statement.. He got a medical condition,besides his antisocial personality, whether he accept it or not.. He is just a poor soul in pain..

The should build a metro from the airport to all the hotels in the capital with a separate line to the resorts. DR must model their daddy the US. In order to pay for infrastructure you must tax everyone up front. Give the poor and business a return when they file. The city government should hire people to collect trash daily. The ADN is a joke. A few old ladies sweeping the street traps with palm leaves on the malecon.

yes, Victor I knoow that you are correct ..I fail to see how anyone can be negative about everything ,,his mind must never be at rest , he obviously is very discontent , no matter where he is and he knows nothing aboout day io day Domincan life ..so why is he here being such an antisocial misfit

My two FATAL ATTRACTIONS have now joined forces in their OBSESSION over josean; Ladies I am straight so look elsewhere!

“he knows nothing aboout day io day {Domincan} life”

You know even less, as the majority of Dominicans don’t travel in the isolated world of Golfing and Money Laundering that you DO!

PS

You are such an expert on Dominican Day to Day Life, yet you don't even know how to Spell Dominican!

josean has been visiting Cuba lately. Now we're getting the news of his stay in Manzanillo and La Habana. LOL

It seems your fabulous career at the Forum has not been doing well lately!

Why don't you take Trip to Cambodia to see if you can catch you groove or SOMETHING ELSE!

“he knows nothing aboout day io day Domincan life”

Since Little Rickey has said that I’m not in touch with happens in Day to Day Dominican Life I am going to make it a point to get more in touch with the daily happening so he goes MY DAILY EFFORT:

All drug officers fired in Hato Mayor

The public prosecutor from Hato Mayor, Manuel Emilio Santana Montero, announced in a press conference on 5 July, that all of the members of the National Drug Control Department (DNCD) have been dismissed, accused of allowing the increase in the sale and consumption of drugs in the eastern city. He said that in the last two months, Hato Mayor has become a drug distribution center and that would not be allowed.

Prior to the announcement, Santana Montero had met with Rolando Rosado Mateo, head of the DNCD, who confirmed the behavior was unacceptable.

continued:

Amongst those dismissed was the head of the DNCD in Hato Mayor, Lieutenant Agustin Rodriguez who was accused of drinking in bars with drug dealers.

Today new members of the DNCD will arrive at the police station in Hato Mayor in order to combat the situation.

listindiario.com/la-republica/2012/7/5/238717/Cancelan-dotacion-completa-de-la-DNCD-en-Hato-Mayor

More Day to Day Happenings to come.................. to see if I become as KNOWLEGABLE as Little Rickey of what the Common Man and Woman faces on Day to Day Basis in DR!

Schizo-Joseano

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that makes it hard to:

- Tell the difference between what is real and not real

- Think clearly

- Have normal emotional responses

- Act normally in social situations

Certain evens can trigger schizophrenia in people who are at risk for it because of their genes, like color purple or the world Leonel..

Jose Anno is doing , what he can do best ! Copy and paste , copy and paste and copy and paste..
A clear case with clear simptoms!

"A clear case with clear simptoms!"


Just a little help from this nut, its spelled SYMPTOMS!