The Mayor’s Office of Santo Domingo Norte (SDN) took the first steps to enlist in the fight against junk vehicles in the municipality, carrying out the first surveys.
The mayor’s office, directed by Betty Geronimo, informed journalists of Listin Diario that, as a result of this problem, an evaluation of the sectors where the junk vehicles are located was carried out to start removing them from the streets and sidewalks.
For this project, the Mayor’s Office of Santo Domingo Norte, through its Department of Public Spaces, will collaborate with the National Institute of Transit and Land Transportation (Intrant), the Direction of Security of Transit and Land Transportation (Digesett), and the Municipal Police.
According to information, evaluations were carried out in the main sectors of the municipality, such as Sabana Perdida, Villa Mella, Los Guaricanos, and part of Higüero; there, the mayor’s office surveyed the streets where junk vehicles are located and kept an accounting of these.
Through these evaluations, they seek to record the cranes and personnel needed to implement the initiative.
They also indicated that they are currently evaluating the area where the junk vehicles that will be removed from public roads will be moved.
“One of the things that the mayor’s office is doing is notifying the owners that they are being given a deadline to remove these cars,” Junior Trinidad, spokesman for the SDN mayor’s office, explained to reporters.
He also clarified that if the vehicles are not removed after the deadline expires, the mayor’s office, Intrant, or Digesett will transfer and retain the cars.
JUNK IN THE STREETS
During a tour carried out by reporters of this media, it was observed how public safety in the streets was threatened due to dozens of junk vehicles occupying streets and sidewalks, which could cause traffic accidents.
This problem, which the authorities have ignored for many years in different intersections of North and West Santo Domingo and the National District, is still latent.
Most of these vehicles are in advanced states of deterioration and are found in the surroundings of repair shops, which use the streets as an extension of their businesses.
Residents of these municipalities stated that their owners left these vehicles for months and even years without any sanction.