{"id":238872,"date":"2025-07-21T04:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T08:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=238872"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:48:29","slug":"big-traffic-fines-and-towing-to-start-4-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/07\/21\/big-traffic-fines-and-towing-to-start-4-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Big traffic fines and towing to start 4 August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Carros-parqueados-Diario-Libre-1024x571.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-238920\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Carros-parqueados-Diario-Libre-1024x571.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Carros-parqueados-Diario-Libre-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Carros-parqueados-Diario-Libre-768x428.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Carros-parqueados-Diario-Libre-1536x856.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Carros-parqueados-Diario-Libre.png 1776w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>People irregularly parked may return to find their vehicle towed away and a bill of RD$5,000 to get the vehicle back. The government has contracted a private towing company that will receive RD$4,000 for the towing and storage and the Digesett will receive RD$1,000 of the total billed. The fine covers the cost of towing, transportation, storage, and retention of vehicles removed from public spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The measure goes into effect on 4 August 2025 in the Poligono Central, the dense commercial and residential area of the capital city. It is part of new actions to improve the flow of traffic under the RD Se Mueve program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The state-managed trust Parqu\u00e9at_RD announced on Sunday, 20 July 2025 that the new fee structure complies with Article 242 of Law 63-17 and is intended to improve traffic flow, reclaim public space, and promote urban mobility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since July 1, Parqu\u00e9at_RD has been operating an educational phase in the expanded Pol\u00edgono Central area, warning drivers about illegal parking without issuing fines. That phase ends in early August, when full enforcement begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/ciudad\/2025\/07\/20\/parqueat_rd-implementa-multas-para-vehiculos-en-distrito-nacional\/3188498\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/ciudad\/2025\/07\/20\/prohibicion-de-giro-a-la-izquierda-se-cumple-sin-dificultades\/3188457\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/noticiassin.com\/nueva-multa-por-parqueo-indebido-en-el-distrito-nacional-rd5000-a-partir-de-agosto-1889677\/\">Noticias SIN <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>21 July 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People irregularly parked may return to find their vehicle towed away and a bill of RD$5,000 to get the vehicle back. The government has contracted a private towing company that will receive RD$4,000 for the towing and storage and the Digesett will receive RD$1,000 of the total billed. The fine covers the cost of towing, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/07\/21\/big-traffic-fines-and-towing-to-start-4-august\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238872"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238922,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238872\/revisions\/238922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}