Diario Libre city reporter Adalberto de la Rosa for weeks has been trying to interview the authorities at the National Transit and Transport Institute (Intrant), National District government (ADN) and Ground Transport Agency (Digesett) to ask about what he has detected is a common practice of citizens placing signage on city streets for particular, not necessarily collective interests.
For years, the Intrant, ADN and Digesett have been looking the other way as citizens violate traffic laws, especially in the cities. The overabundance of vehicles, including motorcycles, has apparently been too much, and the authorities have just let everyone be.
Diario Libre reports that this has led to a new modality, where creative citizens are placing road signage that looks official but isn’t official, to organize traffic at some of the more than usually congested city areas.
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Diario Libre
5 June 2024