Dominican Republic's high speed train unveils in 2 weeks

[Vtroy]

Dominican mountain railway’s route to be unveiled in 2 weeks



SANTIAGO.- The route of the Santo Domingo-Santiago (HVT) High speed train for passengers and freight train, whose construction president Leonel Fernandez announced in September last year, will be presented November 25 in Santiago.

Transport Reform Office (Opret) spokesman Leonel Carrasco will present the project, said Dominican Engineers, Architects and Surveyors Guild (Codia) north region president Silvio Durán, in a press conference.

He said Carrasco will explain the reaches of the railway system. The Haina-Santiago dual service freight and passengers trains will span 125 kilometers with stations in the subdivision Los Alcarrizos, and the central towns Villa Altagracia, Bonao and La Vega. It’s estimated that it can ply the entire route in 30 minutes.

The DR has selected the new HVT model offered by Alstom from France, a company responsible for the Metropolis model in service in the SD Metro. The Metropolis is the latest generation of Metro cars in the market today, capable of being operated on a fully automated basis, without drivers and by computers. The SD Metro operates to the moment one Line in service, but execution of a second line is underway.

The survey company ATTECO continues to carry out work along the planned route of the HVT/Freight trains. The reason for the entry of the construction of the planned HVT/Freight train has to do with the new Line 2 end terminal in Los Alcarrizos, which will serve as the link between the passengers of the HVT and the SD Metro for complete mobility into the City of SD.

The freight train tracks will continue to head towards the port facility at Caucedo and other links to the industrial parks in Santo Domingo and Santiago. In effective taking an untold number of freight trucks that impact the maintenance and security of major roadways in the country.

The super high speed service train is due to carry passengers at the commercial speed of 360 kph. The newest line to be incorporated into Alstom offerings, the AGV, is the one chosen by the Dominican authorities as the speed ceiling is supported well over 500 kph. A future reference of support depending on how much demand grows with the soon to enter service passenger train, the speed can be increased to accommodate more trips during the same time schedule and still keep the same tracks for the freight services to share the infrastructure during the passenger's off time service.

[Motorways]

Wow! great news. really impresive! Hope to receive more news about this project soon!

Enhorabuena amigos, magnifica noticia lo de este proyecto!

[gramercy]

this sounds like the definition of exaggeration

[Occit]

WOW great news...DR is growing so fast. First its gorgeous metro, then this. I have been there and the people is very nice.

[corredor06]

Nice project to go along with their metro.

[Nexis]

Originally Posted by gramercy

this sounds like the definition of exaggeration

I agree , DR is too small for HSR , its would be = Majorca getting HSR , its worthless , maybe a regular Rail line but HSR , that sounds like a big waste of money , and i doubt this will happen

[R@ptor]

Originally Posted by gramercy

this sounds like the definition of exaggeration

The Dominican Republic is certainly large enough to justify a HSR. It has about the same size as Taiwan and the HSR here had an enormous impact shortening travel time between Taipei and Kaohsiung from 5 hours to 1 hour 35 min.

But they should really extend it eastwards instead of building just a short track between Santiago de los Caballeros and Santo Domingo. My suggestion would be 'Santiago de los Caballeros - Santo Domingo - San Pedro de Macoris - Higuey', that would make a lot more sense.

[gramercy]

Originally Posted by R@ptor

The Dominican Republic is certainly large enough to justify a HSR. It has about the same size as Taiwan and the HSR here had an enormous impact shortening travel time between Taipei and Kaohsiung from 5 hours to 1 hour 35 min.

But they should really extend it eastwards instead of building just a short track between Santiago de los Caballeros and Santo Domingo. My suggestion would be 'Santiago de los Caballeros - Santo Domingo - San Pedro de Macoris - Higuey', that would make a lot more sense.

Taiwan is about 3x richer
and even there they are struggling with profitability

[london24/7]

Originally Posted by gramercy

Taiwan is about 3x richer
and even there they are struggling with profitability

Actually the Taiwan HSR makes an operating profit.. but because it was financed with private sector loans the intrest is huge and it can't afford to pay the interest.. if the construction capital was paid for by the government like the TGV lines then the government could have recouped their investment from the profitable operations.. as it is the government is now having to take on the debts of the company to stop the whole thing going bankrupt. could have save time and money in the first place if everyone didn't think the free market was the new jesus