New - Puerto Rico - A Hesitant Tries Commuting by Train
SAN JUAN, P.R. -The New York Times (NY,USA), by ARIANA GREEN -Nov 19, 2005: -- Carlos Medina rides the subway only when he visits New York. Here, where he lives, he spends untold hours in his car... Mr. Medina does become frustrated by the traffic jams, potholes and recklessness he encounters daily on Puerto Rican roads. But a gleaming new alternative - a commuter train that started running last December after years of planning and expense - has yet to win over him or, for that matter, most other commuters... Consultants from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Puerto Rico helped design the heavy rail train, which has the potential for greater capacity than light rail systems like those in Baltimore and Denver. The elegant stations were planned in consultation with the surrounding neighborhoods, partly to encourage residents to become riders... Puerto Rico has never before had much of a public transportation system; its buses are known for being late and not serving enough locations. But the urban train is now being scrutinized as a model, especially in the Caribbean and South America, said Professor Colucci, who has given seminars about it in the Dominican Republic, Panama and Venezuela...
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