Jan 5, 2008
To save fuel, traffic cops would impound government vehicles
SANTO DOMINGO.- The Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET) will as of today enforce the governmental disposition which regulates the use of official vehicles on weekends and holidays which don’t have an official permit, said the director Latif Mahfoud Rodriguez.
The official said instructions have already been issued to AMET’s agents around the country, as part of the Executive Branch’s Fuel and Energy Savings Plan. “The vehicles which don’t have a special certificate for service will be stopped in the places which AMET has to impound them, because all dispositions from the Executive authority are precisely enforced by AMET.”
Mahfoud said that although all official vehicles aren’t subject to the disposition, all those which circulate around streets and highways on prohibited days will have to show an official authorization to the agents.
Mahfoud also said the integration of 1,096 traffic cops in the National District and Santo Domingo province is contributing to ease traffic jams. “In the places where there was a higher congestion of vehicles these have been disappearing.”
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