He Ministry of Works Public and Communications (MOPC) denied this Sunday the “opening of the jobs of the highway Duarte” as has circulated in various media.
Through a press release, he clarified that it was a opening provisional of lanes, enabled on September 17, so that the jobs in execution would allow passage to the hundreds of thousands of vehicles that Travel that road back and forth.
He MOPC explained that this is a procedure routine in this type of works, which includes paving, detours, signage and others jobs provisional to alternate work with traffic and not interrupt vehicular flow.
“Although that information of opening provisional of lanes was served by Minister Ascención in person to the communicators, it has been informed to the public that it was a opening of the jobs of the highwaywhich does not correspond to the truth,” he pointed out.
Furthermore, he pointed out that the jobs of transformation of the highway Duarte are highly complex and to carry them out without interrupting the traffic of the hundreds of thousands of users who pass through it daily, it has been necessary to carry out detours, paving, signage and other actions in a manner provisional.
Technical details
The entity said that specifically in the stretch of the kilometer 9 three new ones have been built bridgestwo lateral and one central, with which the road went from six (6) to fourteen lanes, of which six (6) will be express and the remaining eight (8) will serve local traffic, and public and freight transportation .
- They have also been carried out interventions for improve the existing cloverleaf-shaped traffic distributor, facilitating entries and exits from multiple directions for a large part of the population traveling from Santo Domingo to the 14 provinces of Cibao, and commercial and residential areas on the way to Villa Altagracia. Are interventionsIn addition to making the operation of the distributor more efficient, they will provide two additional lanes to the fourteen mentioned, to pick up and drop off public transport passengers.
In total, they have built three new (3) bridges and removed two (2) existing ones, without completely interrupting the intense traffic in the area. With the removal of these two (2) bridgesIn addition to gaining space and increasing the lanes at the Kennedy level, it was used to gain space on the Luperón, in which two (2) new lanes were added, eliminating the existing bottleneck, and moving from the original four lanes. to six at the level of Luperón, to improve significantly the vehicular flow on that road.
Currently completing the facility of a system of drainage unconventional, for which it has been necessary to cut and remove the concrete slab that is part of the pavement structure of the highway. The removal is carried out with specialized machinery, which makes precise cuts in the old concrete slab, with an average thickness of 40 centimeters, on which, over time, multiple layers of asphalt.
These jobs they can’t be realized with conventional demolition machinery, since it is very close to the jobs that are carried out in that stretch of the road passes the tunnel of line 2 C of the Santo Domingo Metro, heading towards Los Alcarrizos. Likewise, the impact of the machines Demolishing the existing slab may affect the pavement immediately adjacent to the intervened area.
That procedurenecessarily thoroughslow and delicate, is being carried out taking advantage of the decrease in traffic flow during the Christmas holidays and nighttime hours.
The jobs they have counted with the support of other institutions, such as the Santo Domingo Aqueduct and Sewer Corporation (Caasd), the General Directorate of Traffic and Land Transportation Safety (Digesett), the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (Intrant), and the Office For the Reorganization of Transportation, Opret, which have provided fundamental support in the drainage work that is currently carried out, for the purposes of improve water management in the extensive area that the 14 lanes of the stretch and its adjacent areas.
He said that it is important to specify that this intervention has required a significant logistics of negotiations and relocation that included the transfer of hundreds of vendors and bus route terminal operators who had operated there for more than 50 years.
For conclude the jobs of drainage redirection, in the next few days a longitudinal cut will be made that will connect with the Núñez de Cáceres elevated. Subsequently, the construction of three lines of New Jersey-type walls will proceed, two lateral, to delimit the three express lanes of cargo and local traffic and a central one, to separate the directions of circulation of the express lanes.
He pointed out that the asphalt placed At this stage it is not definitive, like the current signs. This asphalt provisional It was installed to speed up traffic on this busy road and will be removed to be reused in a final leveling layer, thus avoiding additional costs.
After this stage we will proceed with the lightning suitablegardening and ornamentation, final signage and the total delivery of the work.
