Cops were out there today for most of the afternoon looking for innocent violators of a new change of lanes. At the new Pemex, after the OXXO, exactly there, if you are heading AWAY from town, you are directed by two signs to veer to the right to the new lane on the right side of the power lines. I never noticed this before today. But then the new lane ends before you get to the end of Huayacan at Colegios. So you are back on the road you would only be on for .2 or .3 km had you taken the correct lane change. But hey, it's almost Christmas and the police have presents to buy too.
TJ, I'm sure you've been around here long enough to notice that the transitos are ALWAYS out in force on the pay days around the middle and end of the month... purely by coincidence I'm sure :wink3:
Jim, I was working in that area so was up and down the road many times. At least half the cars were not taking the new lane. The copw were waiting after the last tope and it was like shooting fish in a barrell for them. The signs are there but one is small and both are not readily noticable if you are a regular on Huayacan. Maybe a better way to educate drivers of the change when it pops up would be a better service for the policia / city / whoever to provide our citizens. But you are sooooo right. I got stopped twice in one day on the way to the airport a few years ago. I was more stupid (yes, interesting description) then and paid my $50 Mxn and was on the way to get my daughter. I PAY NO MORE
Never had a ticket actually. I keep trying though. Usually they pull me at a tope for no front plate on my Florida registered car. Then it turns into a hassle as the Permiso shows expired. I mention Article 106 and they get even more stupid. Then I pull out a copy and usually they shake my hand and tell me to have a nice day. One guy, a couple of months ago, in Pto Juarez, told me I only had 60 days to nationalize my car if I lived here. It's not even 10 years old. I demanded that he call his supervisor and took a picture of his name badge with my cell. Then he told me to drive carefully and I was on my way. My friend Boatergirlkim was in town and saw me pulled over and was sweet enough to go to the next retorno, come back and ask if I was ok, then she had to go to the next retorno to again turn around, putting her behind me. By that Pol. Miguel Garcia had moved on. I pulled to a place where I could pull over, then flagged down Kim and her lovely daughter (she gets cute from her mom) and we all had a nice (and for me, relieved) laugh.
Knowledge of the law doesn't seem to be a requirement for officials here... in my experience they make it up as they go and hope no one calls their bluff... for what it's worth TJ you might want to pickup a novelty license plate next time you're Stateside (FSU or something) to slap on the front just to lessen that BS...
it works that is exactly what we did. Our van has south carolina plates. I cerfed the internet and found out that the margaritaville in myrtle beach had plates very similar to the plate we had on the back.We were getting stopped about every month for having one plates and then of course we would get hassled about the import sticker. I ordered the plate-picked it up when I went to the states. its on the van and havent been stopped since and that was way over a year ago
