The transportation secretary of the Social Christian Reformist Party (PRSC), Mario Diaz demanded to know just what the government is doing with the money it collects from traffic fines. He called for Franchesca de los Santos, the head of the National Traffic Institute (Intrant), to explain where the money is used.
He noted that the Law 63-17 allots 75% of the funds generated by traffic fines to the Attorney General’s Office, and the remaining 25% to fund Intrant.
Despite the passing of the new transit and traffic law in 2017, the Intrant has yet to file the draft for the implementation of the ruling that would put in effect the new regulations contemplated in the law. As a result, most of the efforts of the new agency are still in the planning stage.
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El Nacional
2 January 2019
