[1] The centric area forms the core of the city of Santo Domingo which includes the neighborhoods of Naco, Piantini, Paraíso, and Yolanda Morales.
Since the late 1990s a general trend of vertical growth has been experienced throughout the area creating complications of traffic and lack of appropriate infrastructure to handle the higher density levels.
Centro Olimpico Juan Pablo Duarte is the main sport center of the city of Santo Domingo and occupies roughly the eastern fourth of the Polígono Central.
Currently on construction is line 2 of the system which will have stops along Expreso John F Kennedy and avenues Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Lope de Vega, & Ortega & Gasset.
In the near future, the construction of line 3 of the metro system along Expreso 27 de Febrero (DR-3) will enclose Downtown Santo Domingo with full mass transportation access.
It is composed of a series of elevated express viaduct which run above the intersection of Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Lope De Vega, Tiradentes, and Ortega & Gasset avenues.
To the west of Downtown Santo Domingo the corridor become highway Juan Pablo Duarte and to the east it becomes Expreso Quinto Centenario.