The Dominican Republic is undergoing a dramatic makeover through a programme of construction projects, of which the most ambitious is the Santo Domingo metro.
The Caribbean’s second underground mass transit system responds to the need to reduce the heavy road traffic congestion and air pollution of the country’s capital city. The 15.5-kilometre metro now under construction will have one line and 16 stations, with €92.6m of rolling stock supplied by France’s Alstom from its factories in Belgium, France and Spain. The government expects to have the line open early next year, with capacity for 200,000 passengers.
