Committee meets to implement National Pact for Road Safety

Santo Domingo – Milton Morrison, executive director of the National Institute of Transit and Land Transportation (Intrant), headed yesterday the first meeting of the Social Participation Committee for Mobility, Transportation, Transit and Road Safety, which was established after the signing of the National Pact for Road Safety and President Luis Abinader’s decree 656-24.

During the meeting, the road map for the work schedule was presented, including creating eight thematic tables for formulating the National Road Safety Plan 2025-2030, a project that should be ready by May of next year.

Among the steps and aspects socialized, the first leveling workshops for the actors and sectors that signed the National Pact for Road Safety and other interested parties are scheduled for December 9 and 10.

Introducing the meeting, the director of the newspaper Listin Diario, Miguel Franjul, promoter of the Urban Mobility Forum, an initiative to reach a consensus with different actors of the civil society on short-term measures that the Executive Power can implement, proposed to take up the proposals of the seminar to improve congestion and road safety in the Dominican Republic.

Morrison said that technicians from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) will coordinate and direct the thematic tables.

Also participating in this first meeting, held at the premises of LISTÍN DIARIO, were Sara Burgos, Technical Manager, representing Mario Pujols, Executive Vice-President of the Association of Industries of the Dominican Republic (AIRD); Félix Santos, Executive Director of the Dominican Federation of Municipalities (Fedomu), and Franklin Glass, Executive President of the Dominican Chamber of Insurers and Reinsurers (CADOAR).

In addition, Reynaldo Peguero, executive director of the Council for the Development of Santiago (CDES); Reverend Sergio de la Cruz, president of the Dominican Association of Rectors (ADRU) and rector of the Catholic University of Cibao; Miguel Jiménez, president of the Movido Foundation and representative of the Road Coalition, and Jesús Guerrero, representing Raquel Casares, president of the Association of Property Owners and Residents of the Colonial City.

The participants agreed to take the meetings of the Social Participation Committee for Mobility, Transportation, Transit and Road Safety to other regions of the country to socialize the 29 points contained in the National Pact for Road Safety, of which President Abinader is a signatory, together with 121 public, private and civil society entities, to save lives and to reduce traffic accidents.

LISTÍN Forum

On January 16 of this year, Listin Diario successfully held the “Forum on Urban Mobility,” an initiative to reach a consensus with civil society actors on short-term measures that the Executive Branch can abide by to improve congestion and road safety in the Dominican Republic.

The Forum brought together experts and actors involved in the traffic and mobility system. Its goal was to seek joint proposals for solutions to the traffic and mobility crisis affecting Greater Santo Domingo.

Listin Diario proposed it and was immediately welcomed as sponsors by the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (INTEC), the Ministry of the Presidency, through Intrant, and the Dirección General de Seguridad de Tránsito y Transporte Terrestre (Digesett).