text: Public transportation Other means of public transportation include: taxi services, public bus routes, urban transportation by bus, local airports and rent cars. International flights are handled by the nearby Las Américas International Airport and La Isabela airport.  It can be reached from the city center through some 20 miles of recently expanded expressway and new suspension bridge (Puente Presidente Juan Bosch).
  Politics
  The Distrito Nacional is represented in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies on the same scale as a Province (a single Senator (Senador), plus one Deputy (Diputado) per 50,000 inhabitants). Its local government is the same as the provincial municipios, without the equivalent of a provincial tier of government.
  Sectores (neighborhoods)
  The Distrito Nacional is subdivided in incorporated areas (neighborhoods) called sectores which could be considered as small urban towns. All sectores are serviced directly by the municipal mayor's office (Alcalde).
  Some sectores prefixes:
  Ciudad (city) - applies to the original older parts of town, some dating back to colonial times of Dominican Republic.
  Ensanche (lit. "widening") - usually, but not always, applied to the more "modern" parts of the city.
  Villa - the urban outskirts of both the old city of Santo Domingo and the current (smaller) Distrito Nacional.