Nearly ready: Cable Car to shuttle 96K commuters daily

Santo Domingo.-  The capital’s nearly finished Cable Car will span 15 kilometers, and aims to shuttle 96,000 commuters daily, or 6,000 straphangers per hour.

Its confection with the Santo Domingo Metro subway system will expand the mobility of 3.3 million inhabitants throughout the urban area, with 3 million commuter trips per day, according to a study by transport expert Onéximo González,.

The cable car will benefit around 287,000 people who live in some of Grater Santo Domingo’s most sprawling barrios, according to Govt. agency URBE, which calls it “a novel transport system that will communicate historically marginalized sectors on the margins of the Ozama (river) basin.”

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