Aug 14, 2011

Leonel and mayors will deal with Duquesa road

President Leonel Fernandez will meet with the mayors of Greater Santo Domingo in order to find a solution to the deterioration of the road that leads to the Duquesa land fill, reported yesterday the Presidential Minister, Cesar Pina Toribio.

The official did not release the time or the day, and only added that the President has a very tight schedule.

Upon being questioned as to whether the government is willing to assist in the construction of the roadway, as the Commonwealth of Greater Santo Domingo has asked, he limited himself to saying that there must be a reason for holding the meeting.

Service is restarted

After going forward with the repairs to a stretch of the highway to Duquesa, the road was opened to the garbage trucks and dump trucks that carry the refuse to the land fill.

Jose Miguel Martinez, the director of Sanitation of the National District city government, reported that just between 7:00 and 8:30 yesterday morning some 50 trucks from the district went in to deposit the garbage that they had carried since the day before.

Brigades from the Ministry of Public Works, from the city governments and other institutions were still working yesterday while for moments they let the heavy vehicles that carried the refuse pass through.

Martinez estimated that the work would end by the end of the week, as long as the rains held off.

Because of the delay caused by the bad state of the dirt road that goes to Duquesa, due to the rains that were brought by tropical storm Emily, there was an accumulation of garbage in the streets and avenues of the capital.