Urgent Cultural Change
Required, Says Top Traffic Cop
The ideal is that drivers adopt a
responsible behaviour when they get behind
the wheel. But the reality suggests
otherwise, according to the director of the
Policía de Tránsito, Germán Marín, the
country's top traffic cop.
"We have a situation of road ignorance. We
see it every day, dramatic events occur when
people drive under the influence of alcohol
and committing other actions that many
drivers do not consider important", Marín
said in a recent interview with the daily Al
Día.
"Responsible drivers do not care if there is
a traffic officer nearby or that the fines
are too high", said Marín.
The new Ley de Tránsito that goes into
effect on March 1, 2010, has many up in arms
that the fines are too high and that the
penalties for drinking and reckless driving
are too harsh.
Although legislators are currently
discussing reducing the fines called for in
the legislation that was passed in 2008 and
postponed its implementation to September
2009 and then March 2010, the new law will
certainly change the way drivers in Costa
Rica take to the road.
For his part, Marín is confident that people
are ready to assume the consequences of the
new rules of the road. |
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