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In recent years, the Ministry of Public Works has worked to expand the highway from one-lane in each direction into a two-lane bi-directional highway from San Cristobal to Bani to ease the high volume of traffic traveling in DR-2/DR-6. The Expansion increased the quality of the highway and the safety
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and divides into two local one-way main streets that cross the city center. This has been a problem still unresolved which causes great traffic congestion along these two main street and forces travelers going farther west to enter the city of Bani without an option to bypass it. A bypass of Bani to
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area. This highway is unique among the rest of the city because it exhibits characteristics of a controlled-access roadway while at the same time behaving like a regular avenue. Originally, as it was meant to provide a fast connection to the southwestern part of country. In the present it has been
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which a large median and well kilometer signage. As a result of the expansion fast travel can be achieved from the city of Santo Domingo all the way to Bani without the dangers and accidents that previously made this highway one of the most dangerous.
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it is renamed in honor of one of the founding fathers of the Republic. A toll is paid before entering the commercial port of Haina, the largest port in the island of
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30 de Mayo begin west of George Washington avenue along the Caribbean coast. For those traveling along the coast it serves as a major artery connecting with the
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for a total length of approximately 255 kilometers. The route is mainly a two-lane roadway even though it has been recently expanded from San Cristobal to
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were commercial traffic tends to be heavy due to its proximity to the port. Farther west, DR-2, serves as a local connection to the major city of
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After leaving the city center, the Carretera Sánchez continues and becomes a two-lane high speed road which connects to the DR-41 in
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which is only about 30 kilometers west of Santo Domingo. At this point it runs roughly parallel to the
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and also gives connection to DR-44 which spurs out of DR-2 and continues to southwestern cities of
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the north or south of the town would allow the motorist to save time when going to western cities.
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serves as a spur route of DR-2 in the center of Bani serving the small villages of
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This section contains a bulleted list or table of intersections which
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for its drivers following similar standards of the expansions in
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should be presented in a properly formatted junction table.
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and continues on a western route through until its end in
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