Santiago de los Caballeros.- The Central Station of the Integrated Transport System of Santiago (SIT) will be the new commercial and tourist hub of the heart city through which around 59 million passengers a year will circulate, guaranteeing a constant commercial and tourist dynamic for the Heart City, incorporating a commercial and business center.
This station has been conceived to become a business point with a mixture of options for spaces for entertainment, restaurants, and other service alternatives that complement the modern integral mobility system under an avant-garde and sustainable design that will enrich the experience. of visitors.
This information was disclosed during the panel “The Integrated Transportation System of Santiago as the engine of turismo: How does mobility positively affect the growth of tourism in Santiago? with the participation of Omar Piantini in charge of Commercial Management and Frinette Rodríguez in charge of Communications of the SIT, together with Gladilaida Pereyra, president of the Dominican Association of Tourist Press (ADOMPRETUR) Santiago branch.
“The system will have most of the air route, which will allow tourists to appreciate the city from another perspective, either from a cable car cabin or from one of the Monorail cars, the only one of its kind in all of Central America and the Caribbean. . A unique experience at a low cost in a safe, comfortable and, above all, sustainable way due to the low environmental impact of this transportation system,” Piantini said.
Likewise, Piantini emphasized that the system is designed so that tourists and visitors to the city can connect the different places of tourist attraction in the city such asl Mirador del Yaque, the Monument, the Historic Center among other destinations. “In this way, we strengthen existing tourist offers in Santiago, such as business and health tourism, incorporating the Urban Tourism modality with circuits of tourist routes within the city, as occurs in Medellin and Bogota in Colombia”.
While Gladilaisa Pereyra of APPROPRIATE Santiago took a tour of what mobility has meant for the province, from the use of traditional cars, part of the traditional images of the first Santiago in the New World, to what this new and modern mobility alternative is that corresponds to the growth exhibited by the Cibaeña city.
“From ADOMPRETUR Santiago we are working on the articulation with different institutions that work to transform Santiago into a tourist destination aligned with international demands. In this sense, we must be open to the changes and improvements that we need and deserve as a city. Mobility and a modern transport system constitute an essential pillar for a cosmopolitan city like Santiago to establish itself as an attractive and competitive tourist destination”.
About the Santiago Integrated Transport System (SIT)
Frinette Rodríguez, in charge of communications at the SIT, described the benefits of the system that will incorporate 4 modes of mobility: cable car, monorail, bikes and a feeder route of buses, impacting 500,000 beneficiaries directly, moving more than 200 thousand passengers a day, in a total route of 21.5 kilometers between the Monorail and the Cable Car.
The Santiago Cable Car will be a system of air cable transport that will fly over the congestion zones and allow the integration of the marginalized sectors of the banks of the Yaque del Norte River, impacting 122,000 citizens in a 6.5-kilometer route, moving 4,500 passengers per hour in each direction, equivalent to 72,000 passengers per day. “We will cross the river at two points, to connect people with their places of work, studies and recreation, increasing the quality of life and renewing the city,” said Rodríguez.
While the Monorail will include the consolidation of a mass transportation axis with a capacity of 20,000 passengers per hour in each direction with its own right of way, which guarantees an express route for users accessing the city center.
“Along its 15 kilometers, the monorail will be made up of 14 stations that, in their design, will improve urban spaces and develop the great commercial potential of the Ciudad Corazón, as is the case of the Central Station, which will function as the main connection of the SIT and where the monorail and cable car systems will converge”, he emphasized.
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