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The prohibition of teaching vehicles in This important route will apply for weekends and bank holidays.
The measure is taken after implementing several actions and reviewing possible risks that affect cyclists and other road actors that circulate on that road, which is very crowded on weekends.
According to the Bogotá Mayor’s Office, teaching cars and motorcycles may not use the Bogotá-Choachí road. In addition, during the first 10 days in which this rule begins to apply, the Traffic Police will impose only pedagogical tests; after Sunday (December 13) The offenders will be financially sanctioned, who will have to pay a fine of 438,900 pesos.
The decision is made based on recent figures from the authorities, which assure that “on a Sunday with high traffic traffic, between 6 am and 6 pm, more than 3,600 vehicles are registered in both directions, of which 2 % belong to teaching schools, ”says the Mayor’s Office.
Also, on a weekend they can easily more than 4,000 cyclists move along the Bogotá-Choachí road.
Restriction of teaching vehicles in Bogotá
This ban, which goes into effect this week, It will apply to motor vehicles (cars and motorcycles) of the Automotive Education Centers that move through this corridor, in the section between kilometer 0 and kilometer 16, end of the jurisdiction of Bogotá and beginning of the jurisdiction of the municipality of Choachi (Cundinamarca).
What happens if someone violates the rule? The Bogotá Mayor’s Office reported that, in this case, the violation of the Traffic Code would be C.14: “Transit through restricted sites or at times prohibited by the competent authority. In addition, the vehicle will be immobilized ”and the offender would pay a fine of: $ 438,900”.
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