Alstom delivers its two first metro trains for Santo Domingo Line 2B

July 25, 2018 – Alstom delivered the two first out of 6 Metropolis trains for Line 2B of Santo Domingo’s Metro. The train sets are composed of three cars each with wide doors, wide corridors and a low floor for an optimal flow of passengers.

In 2015, OPRET (Office for the Reorganization of Transportation), awarded Alstom to supply 6 additional Metropolis trains to line 2B, an extension of 4.6 kilometers and four additional passenger stations from Eduardo Brito up to Carretera Mella.

“Alstom is very proud to continue being a strategic partner to OPRET and the city of Santo Domingo and also to be delivering a project that will improve the quality of life for its residents and will allow the city to take a step further in becoming a more sustainable city’’, declared Ludovic D-Hauthuille, North LAM Managing Director at Alstom.

These Metropolis trains are part of Alstom´s Metropolis range, which transports approximately 10,000,000 passengers daily in all over the world. To date, more than 5,500 Metropolis cars have been sold in different cities such as Barcelona, Warsaw, Singapore, Buenos Aires, Lima and Santiago de Chile.