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P<\/SPAN>resident Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez will inaugurate the first complete Metro Line in Santo Domingo. The celebratory act will take place on Thursday at the Heroes Center Station at 5 pm. <\/P> Santo Domingo\u2019s first Metro line consists of 16 stations spanning a length of 14.5 kilometers, 57 train cars and 19 train lines.<\/P> After undergoing a series of tests, the Santo Domingo Metro was approved overwhelmingly by those who tested and rode the train since it began to function last February 27 when its first ride was also attended by the President. In the month of December alone, more than 2 million people used the new mass transit service. <\/P> Prior to its inauguration, the system was submitted to a total technical revision carried out by advisors from Madrid\u2019s Metro system and Dominican engineers. The Metro system, built with cutting edge technology, is expected to serve up to 175,000 riders per day.<\/P> Santo Domingo\u2019s first Metro line consists of 16 stations spanning a length of 14.5 kilometers, 57 train cars and 19 train lines. The system runs North to South due to the fact that the majority of passengers are from the Municipality of Northern Santo Domingo. <\/P> Each of the Metro stations will carry the name of an important person in Dominican cultural and political history such as Professor Juan Bosch, Pedro Livio Cede\u00f1o, Gregorio Luper\u00f3n, Pe\u00f1a Batlle, Mam\u00e1 Ting\u00f3, Am\u00edn Abel, Casandra Damir\u00f3n, Joaqu\u00edn Balaguer and Jos\u00e9 Francisco Pe\u00f1a G\u00f3mez.<\/P> In addition, stations will be named after Francisco Caama\u00f1o, Gregorio A. Gilbert, the Mirabal Sisters, M\u00e1ximo G\u00f3mez, Los Ta\u00ednos, Los Guar\u00edcanos, the Juan Pablo Duarte Olympic Center and the Heroes Center (the Fair), where a large number of government offices are located. <\/P> <\/P> <\/P><\/TD><\/TR> President Fern\u00e1ndez To Inaugurate Santo Domingo\u2019s First Metro Line on Thursday President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez will inaugurate the first complete Metro Line in Santo Domingo. The celebratory act will take place on Thursday at the Heroes Center Station at 5 pm. Santo Domingo\u2019s first Metro line consists of 16 stations spanning a length of 14.5 kilometers, … Continue reading “President Fern\u00e1ndez To Inaugurate Santo Domingo\u2019s First Metro Line on Thursday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noticias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dominicanaonline.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nDate of Publication: January 28, 2009<\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"