{"id":474014,"date":"2025-07-04T17:43:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/out-of-service-metro-escalators-force-elderly-people-to-walk-down-making-great-efforts\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T17:48:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:48:57","slug":"out-of-service-metro-escalators-force-elderly-to-walk-down-making-great-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/out-of-service-metro-escalators-force-elderly-to-walk-down-making-great-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Out-of-service metro escalators force elderly to walk down, making great efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo.-<\/strong> Users of the <strong>Santo Domingo Metro<\/strong> denounce that the electric stairs in one of the main stations are always out of service during peak hours, a situation that especially forces elderly people to descend the fixed stairs, making a great physical effort that puts their health at risk.<\/p>\n\n\nThis Friday afternoon at 5:30, it was possible to observe elderly adults descending the long flights of stairs with difficulty, some leaning on the handrails while others were assisted by family members.\n\nUsers are asking the <strong>Office for the Reordering of Transportation (Opret)<\/strong> to provide a response to the situation of the out-of-service escalators during peak hours, highlighting that not only the elderly are affected, but also people with reduced mobility and mothers with strollers.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/nacionales\/metro-anunciara-nuevos-horarios\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"496631\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SD Metro to announce new operating hours<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.- Users of the Santo Domingo Metro denounce that the electric stairs in one of the main stations are always out of service during peak hours, a situation that especially forces elderly people to descend the fixed stairs, making a great physical effort that puts their health at risk. This Friday afternoon at 5:30, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":474194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[41573],"class_list":["post-474014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-new-york-city-subway"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1Zjo","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-04-at-5.35.40-PM.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Ana Laura L\u00f3pez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.45.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-04-at-5.35.40-PM.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}