00:00Liston Diario presents the Editorial from the Director.
00:30That of the unstoppable slumification that has degraded emblematic projects like the Avenida Ecologica, where informal businesses and micro-landfills have undermined its potential. The pattern observed in Azua, with businesses choking the roads, cannot be repeated. The strips reserved for expansion are the first target for illegal occupation. In Bani, these spaces are vital to its scalability as a tourist destination.
00:56Allowing their encroachment would be equivalent to sabotaging multi-million dollar investments destined for regional development. Another factor of environmental degradation is the accumulation of scrap metal, indiscriminate pruning, and spontaneous dumps that spoil the landscape.
01:12The uncontrolled installation of businesses on roadsides creates bottlenecks and road hazards. Smart and permanent surveillance is immediately necessary, using drone monitoring systems and patrols from the City Council and the road network.
01:26We must demand that the Ministry of Public Works implement land-use regulations with exemplary penalties for invaders and companies that violate them.
01:34In other countries, so-called service areas exist, set back from roads, as demonstrated by the success of the coffee route in Colombia.
01:42In these tourist corridors, the country's government cannot allow its investment in Bani to be ruined by negligence.
01:50This bypass winds through forests and mountains, assets that lose value with shacks and inappropriate construction.
01:57Bani deserves a different fate, to be remembered not as another victim of disorder, but as the first Dominican highway to overcome the curse of degradation.
02:06Let's demand a perpetual custody pact from the Mayor's offices and the Ministry of Public Works.
02:12The landscape and future generations will demand it.
02:16Excellent roads are mirrors of national greatness.
02:19Abandoned ones are epitaphs of lost opportunities.
02:23For Listine Diario, voiceover and translation by Danny Leon.
02:27For Listine Diario, voiceover and translation by Danny Leon.
