Main Roads or Highways

• Autopista Duarte
• Carretera Sánchez
• Autopista 6 de Noviembre
• Autopista de Samana
• Auto Pista las Américas
• Auto Vía del Este
• Carretera Sánchez
• Auto Pista del Coral
• Boulevard Turístico del Atlántico
• Carretera San Cristobal-Bani-Azua

Composition of the Highway Network of the Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic has eight main roads:

• DR-1 connects Santo Domingo with the Cibao region, through the second most populous city Santiago de los Caballeros and ends at the Dominican-Haitian north-Haitian border near Monte Cristi.
• Dr-2 gives Santo Domingo a direct link to the medium-sized cities located in the southwestern region of the country and a second connection to Haiti through the southern border.
• Dr-3 provides Santo Domingo with a direct connection to the important eastern cities and ends in Punta Cana.

The other numbered highways either provide alternative routes (DR-8, DR-4, DR-6), or function as an auxiliary route (DR-5) from the main routes to connect smaller cities to the main highway network.

• Regional highways or secondary system: Locally called “highways”, they satisfy the traffic demands between cities or centers not served by the less active backbone or primary system.
• Local roads or tertiary system: they are generally small extensions mainly intended to give access to the interesting traffic that serves as a link between small cities or towns with a secondary system. 
• Local roads: provide access to agricultural production area and towns inaccessible to motor vehicles. They do not have numbered codes and have reduced traffic (20-500 vehicles per day).
• Neighborhood Roads Network: Roads that provide access mainly to agricultural production areas and hard-to-reach towns.

The Ministry of Public Works and Communications (MOPC) is in charge of providing and maintaining the road network in good condition that allows the transportation of agricultural products as quickly as possible to the centers of commercialization, distribution and consumption.

For more information on government contact details, see the following link: 4.1 Government Contact List.

Distance Matrix

Road Safety

Dirección General de Seguridad de Tránsito y Transporte Terrestre | DIGESETT

Ave. Expreso V Centenario esq. San Martín, Santo Domingo, R.D

Tel.: (809) 686-6520 Fax: (809) 686-7017

info@digesett.gob.do 

For road assistance

Schedule: Open 24 hours 

Telephone: (829) 688-1000

Weighing bridges and axle load limits

Rates at public and private toll stations

Source: http://rdvial.gob.do/peajes/