Santo Domingo Metro

Santo Domingo Metro
Overview
Native nameMetro de Santo Domingo
Area servedGreater Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Transit typeRapid transit
Number of lines2[1]
Number of stations34[2][3]
Daily ridership173,070 (daily avg., Nov. 2014)[4]
Annual ridership61,270,054 (2014)[5]
Websiteopret.gob.do
Operation
Began operationJanuary 30, 2009 (2009-01-30)
Operator(s)OPRET
CharacterMostly underground, with an elevated section on Line 1
Number of vehicles19 Alstom Metropolis
Technical
System length48.5 km (30.1 mi)[2][3]
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
ElectrificationOverhead line, 1,500 V DC
System map
Legend
Line 1
 Mamá Tingó
Gregorio Urbano Gilbert
Concepción Bona
Line 2
Gregorio Luperón
Trina de Moya de Vasquez
José Francisco Peña Gómez
Rosa Duarte
Hermanas Mirabal
Ercilia Pepin
Isabela River
Eduardo Brito
Máximo Gómez
Manuel de Jesús Galván
Horacio Vazquez
Los Taínos
Ramón Cáceres
Pedro Livio Cedeño
Mauricio Báez
Manuel Arturo Peña Batlle
Colonel Rafael Tomás Fernández
Juan Pablo Duarte
Juan Ulises García Saleta
Prof. Juan Bosch
Freddy Beras Goico
Casandra Damirón
Pedro Mir
Joaquín Balaguer
Ulises Francisco Espaillat
Amín Abel Hasbún
Francisco Gregorio Billini
Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó
Pedro Francisco Bonó
Centro de los Héroes
Line 1
Line 2
 María Montez
Manoguayabo
La Monumental
Prolongación 27 de Febrero
Pantoja
Los Alcarrizos
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The Santo Domingo Metro (Spanish: Metro de Santo Domingo) is a rapid transit system in Greater Santo Domingo. Serving the capital of the Dominican Republic, it is the most extensive metro system in the insular Caribbean and Central American region by length and number of stations. It began operation on January 30, 2009.

The Metro is a major part of the "National Master Plan" to improve transportation in Greater Santo Domingo and the rest of the nation. The first line was planned to relieve traffic congestion on the Máximo Gómez and Hermanas Mirabal Avenue thoroughfares, which connect Santo Domingo. The second line, which opened in April 2013, is meant to relieve the congestion along the Duarte-Kennedy-Centenario Corridor in the city from west to east. The current length of the Metro, with the sections of the two lines open as of August 2013, is 27.35 kilometres (16.99 mi).[2][3] Before the second line's opening, 30,856,515 passengers had ridden the Santo Domingo Metro in 2012.[1] With both lines opened, ridership increased to 61,270,054 passengers in 2014.[5]

Four more lines are planned to be constructed in the near future, for a total of six lines.

  1. ^ a b "Estadísticas de peaje y tiempo de recorrido al 2013" [Statistics of tolls and times of route 2013] (PDF). opret.gob.do (in Spanish). Oficina para el Reordenamiento de Transporte (OPRET). p. 2. Retrieved 2013-09-17.
  2. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference SD-Line1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference SD-Line2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Informe de Evolución de la Demanda Diciembre 2014" [Report on Changes in Demand December 2014] (PDF) (in Spanish). Dirección de Operaciones Metro de Santo Domingo [Directorate of Operations Santo Domingo Metro]. January 7, 2015. p. 11. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
  5. ^ a b "Informe de Evolución de la Demanda Diciembre 2014" [Report on Changes in Demand December 2014] (PDF) (in Spanish). Dirección de Operaciones Metro de Santo Domingo [Directorate of Operations Santo Domingo Metro]. January 7, 2015. p. 7. Retrieved 2015-04-01.