Dominican Republic – Santiago de los caballeros – 2023

Santiago

Santiago de los Caballeros, the second-largest city in the Dominican Republic, is currently building the SITS (Santiago Integrated Transport System), a sustainable mobility system that includes a monorail, bicycles, electric buses and a 12-passenger, almost four-kilometer-long gondola.

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Urban Gondola Lift
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The project

To support urban development in the country’s 2nd largest city, Santiago de los Caballeros, the Dominican government has created the SITS (Santiago Integrated Transport System). At the heart of the project is a soft and sustainable mobility service accessible to all, including a monorail, bicycles, electric buses and a 12-seater gondola almost 4 km long.

As in Santo Domingo, the Santiago gondola is equipped with the latest generation Direct Drive motorization, offering reliable, fast and environmentally-friendly transport of 4,500 people per hour at speeds of 7 m/s. Its comfortable 12-seater cabins are decked out in the city’s emblematic red color, as they take to the Dominican skies.

The gondola flies over the most congested areas of the city, which has a population of 130,000, to link the 4 stations in just 10 minutes. By connecting residents directly to job opportunities and upgrading public spaces, the authorities intend to give new economic and social impetus to the neighborhoods served by the line.

TECHNICAL
SPECIFICATIONS

Longueur

Length

3 920 m

Difference in altitude

41 m

Date

Speed

7 m/s

Capacity

4 000 personnes/h

nombre de stations

Number of stations

4

Number of cabins

129

Number of passengers per cabin

12

Third urban aerial tramway

for the Dominican Republic

The cable car traverses the city’s most congested areas, connecting a total of four stations in just ten minutes. This means that the cable car station at the main station, where a monorail station will soon be built, has become an important intermodal hub. Teleferico lines 1 and 2 operate 17 hours a day, 355 days a year. The operation and maintenance contract for this new system has once again been awarded to POMA.

POMA, innovation

for the project

Development of Dominican transports

The Santiago de los Caballeros gondola lift will be the 3rd POMA line built in just 6 years in the Dominican Republic, which has made ropeway transportation the symbol of innovative and virtuous mobility to boost the country’s development, a model for the entire Caribbean region.

An intermodal mobility solution

The central station, located at the crossroads of a key road network and which will also host the future monorail station, will become a major intermodal hub for thousands of daily users.

Santiago in pictures

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