Dear AMET or Digisett or whatever you call yourselves this week,
As you know, the drivers in this country and the road disipline leave something to be desired. Here in Bavaro, I need not drive one mile to collect a day’s worth of infractions. Everything from unfit vehicles, no helmets, over loaded trucks, lane splitting, driving the wrong way in a lane, not to mention all those special people at Cocotal who’s lives are so important merging through the shoulder, that they cannot drive an extra 2 minutes to either go to work or get home.
I do believe your job is in fact to make the roads safer. Yet all I ever see you do, is sit stationary, pulling over perfectly good vehicles, with drivers properly belted, headlights on and in the proper lane all the while allowing helmetless motorcycle drivers with no lights, bad tires and no brakes, shitty old trucks grossly overloaded... pass through.
I must apologize to the AMET tax collector who attempted to pull me over tonight (would have been the 3rd to do so through my day today). All my papers are in order and I am one of maybe 30% here who actually have a Dominican driver’s license! Yes, I should have stopped as you said you were just doing your job. But having done nothing wrong to warrant another attempted “Tax” stop, I rolled down the window and told you to “do your job”. This was in front of Ejecativo in Bavaro. If you were “doing your job” you would have been out at the intersection as the “special people” of Cocotal crossed oncoming traffic, to drive against the flow to save 2 minutes of their busy days. You would have been up at Friusa intersection where it was total gridlock. You would have ticketed drivers who decided that the left and right lanes were more than acceptable to go “one way”.
I know Christmas is near, and you would all like something special in the pocket. Well, you picked the wrong Santa Claus.
Merry Christmas
As you know, the drivers in this country and the road disipline leave something to be desired. Here in Bavaro, I need not drive one mile to collect a day’s worth of infractions. Everything from unfit vehicles, no helmets, over loaded trucks, lane splitting, driving the wrong way in a lane, not to mention all those special people at Cocotal who’s lives are so important merging through the shoulder, that they cannot drive an extra 2 minutes to either go to work or get home.
I do believe your job is in fact to make the roads safer. Yet all I ever see you do, is sit stationary, pulling over perfectly good vehicles, with drivers properly belted, headlights on and in the proper lane all the while allowing helmetless motorcycle drivers with no lights, bad tires and no brakes, shitty old trucks grossly overloaded... pass through.
I must apologize to the AMET tax collector who attempted to pull me over tonight (would have been the 3rd to do so through my day today). All my papers are in order and I am one of maybe 30% here who actually have a Dominican driver’s license! Yes, I should have stopped as you said you were just doing your job. But having done nothing wrong to warrant another attempted “Tax” stop, I rolled down the window and told you to “do your job”. This was in front of Ejecativo in Bavaro. If you were “doing your job” you would have been out at the intersection as the “special people” of Cocotal crossed oncoming traffic, to drive against the flow to save 2 minutes of their busy days. You would have been up at Friusa intersection where it was total gridlock. You would have ticketed drivers who decided that the left and right lanes were more than acceptable to go “one way”.
I know Christmas is near, and you would all like something special in the pocket. Well, you picked the wrong Santa Claus.
Merry Christmas
