‘All ’board’ as subway cars arrive in Dominican Republic

Dominicantoday.com, Santo Domingo, January 4th 2008

The three train cars which arrived in the country to be used in the Santo Domingo Metro are of the latest generation in that type of transport used in Europe and more advanced than those used in Latin America, said Miguel Pedini, project manager of ALSTOM, the company contracted to build the rapid transit system slated to begin in February in the capital with 19, three-car trains.

"This is the most modern model we have made, this is the same train which is being used today in Barcelona, the last line of Barcelona is identical to this," he said while showing the cars at East Haina port.

Pedini said the 30-ton, steel and aluminum cars have global capacity of more than 200 seated passengers, a closed circuit camera system and the latest traction and braking system technology. "It has a system of crowns with bearings which is the most advanced we have in production. We have inner video-vigilance television cameras to control the station, the boarding and deboarding of people, by closed circuit to see that there aren’t security problems, of vandalism, theft or internal interferences."