Engineer Claudia Franchesca de los Santos of the director of the National Ground Transport & Transit Institute (Intrant) wants the Intrant to gets its share of traffic fines. Law 63-17 on Mobility, Land, Transport, Transit and Road Safety establishes that the Attorney General Office should deliver 25% of the resources generated by fines to the institution. This has not been happening.
De los Santos says the Intrant needs more money for the job of organizing traffic and making roads safe. She complained the institution has not been able to apply the transit law to generate its funds fully. She mentioned, for instance, that cargo and passenger transporters have quotas to pay. Moreso, the Intrant should be receiving funds generated by permits issued to authorize taxi operation.
De los Santos also mentioned Intrant should be collecting funds from driver licenses issuance and vehicle inspections.
She also said that fines for drunk driving are high. She noted the law allows for fining drunk drivers with RD$50,000-RD$100,000. A pilot test is ongoing to alert people to the fines.
She says that the transit law established most of the Intrant funds would come from self-generated actions, not from the allotment under the Ministry of Public Works.
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El Caribe
22 August 2019