He rescue from the northern part of the avenue Duartefrom Paris Street, is lagging behind and the chaos generated by merchants that have improvised and dilapidated tarantines that occupy the sidewalks and road lanes.
An anarchic atmosphere is maintained, where the noise of the horns of businesses promoting their products, the bustle of vehicles, buyers and sellersand the hustle and bustle of passersby. Added to this are the furtive intentions of pickpockets, all of which intensifies the surveillance of those who visit this part of the commercial artery to buy or sell.
The improvised ones booths Constructed of scrap wood, canvas, and old cardboard, they occupy a lane on both sides of the avenue and, in most of the sidewalks You can barely walk without touching the hawsers of shirts, pants, handbags and everything that is sold in those spaces.
Citizens have been left waiting for the continuity of the project “Paris and its Surroundings” that seeks to recover, in addition to what remains of the DuarteJosé Martà street. The first stage was inaugurated in 2021 and the second in 2022 and together they cost more than 511 million pesos in total.
The promise was to continue intervening Duarte to replicate the project of Paris, but since the inauguration of the second stage, in September 2022, no work has been done in the area, which makes some fear that the work will not continue.
Plans of the Town hall
Alfredo GarcÃa, Director of Communications of the Town hall of the National District, said that for January it is planned to announce a series of works in the city that include part of the avenue Duarte which has not yet been intervened.
“We are going to do many works in several places and we are going to impact the Duarte“We have to continue replicating the Paris model, but that takes time and there are three issues that we have to face on three fronts: economic, social and cultural and coordination with other institutions,” said GarcÃa.
The peddlers
José Antonio Méndez, president of the Association of Sellers of the Duarte with Paris, said that apparently the lifting of the possible intervention of the Duarte up.
He indicated that President Luis Abinader had promised to find the resources to help the Town hall to continue the sanitation of the area. “The Town hall has the interest to continue the project towards the northern part, Ovando to the Mercado Nuevo,” he said.
He reported that the director of Public Spaces, Lieutenant Colonel José AnÃbal Sanz, is taking steps so that the project be a reality and that project can connect with the Duarte with Paris.
He indicated that in everything that remains to be intervened by the Duarte there are about 2,000 peddlersthe majority haitians.
The second stage of the “Duarte with Paris and Environment” project included from José Martà Street to Josefa Brea Street. The works include the renovation of sidewalks and ramps, paving of the Paris, solution of sanitary and storm drainage as well as street furniture. 246 modules were built for peddlers, 60 of which were strategically located on the Paseo de la Paris. The expectations of citizens are that the northern part of Duarte Avenue to the north and José Martà Street, from 27 de Febrero, will be recovered.
