:format(png):focal(1860x1840:1870x1830)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/gfrmedia/N6ISPZ46U5BTROPSEWFRJ2K47M.jpg "Senado investigates the use of scooters during incidents in public areas of the metropolitan area")
During the various incidents that he discovered when he discriminated against the use of the so-called “scooters” or monocles in areas where his transit was prohibited, the Senate approved a unanimous resolution to investigate the proliferation of businesses dedicated to driving it. on regulation.
“Geen entememos como es que, in many tourist areas of Puerto Rico, we can observe the use of these vehicles by the public visas”, read the presentation of the motives of the Resolution of Senate 86, the authority of Senator Nitza Morán Trinidad.
The most recent incident transcended the property, where a video circulated on social roads was observed while a woman was traveling in a “scooter” on the entire Baldorioty de Castro avenue in San Juan, a road in which the use was of the monoclets, defined in the “Ley de Vehículos y Transit” (Ley 22-2000).
“We see all the images of a tourist, apparently, that are valued and launched on the other side of the street near the Baldorioty of Castro and the hemosphere seen transits by the point Minillas, which means that he was converted to motor vehicles practically for public visas ”, excused the San Juan Senator Henry Neumann.
In the media, it is recalled that, although the “Vehicles and Transit of Puerto Rico”, allows the municipalities to regulate the use of public calls and publications within their jurisdiction, the Ley enforces in the court of which the motorbikes or motorbikes are referred to, are “can not be transited by motorists, state carriers or public visas, state or municipal, which are paved”.
El portavoz alterno del Partido Nuevo Progresista (PNP), Carmelo Ríos, reaffirms the regularity of transport. Aggregate that over 100 cities of the United States are working in similar situations. “Certainly there are schools of interest and development that do not allow us to detain, but if we regularly ask to salvage the security of transitions”, dijo.
It was added that these “scooters” were introduced to the market to replace the use of motor vehicles in urban areas and were directed to young people between 18 years and 35 years, as well as persons who do not use service transport media such as Uber y Lift.
Between the alternatives to regularity this practice, the limit is its use in areas where there is a need for transportation due to lack of parking. “I believe we will move fast enough,” said Ríos.
Currently, Article 10.16 of the statutory statute establishes that any person who transits in a “scooter” by a public vehicle, sea state or Municipal, will incur a serious penalty and will be penalized with a fine of $ 1,000 which may increase to $ 5.000 si mediaran la negligence o la imprudencia temeraria.
El senador por el Movimiento Victoria Ciudadana (MVC), Rafael Bernabe points out that although he favored investigating the use of these new forms of mobility, he did not have to part with the premise of his illegitimacy or with the mentality of seeing “we will be detained”. “The investigation should be conducted as an objective examination and study of these new forms of mobility with an open mind to see if it prohibits making changes to existing regulations,” he said.