Medellín: Charge for circulation will be suspended from March 1 - Medellín - Colombia

The special circulation permit, a measure that allowed drivers to pay to travel on the day that the peak and license plate corresponded, will be suspended in Medellin from March 1, after completing its pilot plan.

This was announced by Mayor Daniel Quintero Calle during a press conference this Thursday, after it became known that at least 70,000 vehicles in the city would be evading the measure without paying.

“The congestion charge pilot is going to go until March 1, there we are going to collect information, there it is suspended. Those who have bought, remain exempt, but let’s say there it is suspended. For one or two months we are going to be processing the information and, based on that, we are going to be creating new measures,” said Quintero Calle.

For now, it is known that 97 percent of people did not use this permissionbut it is expected to specify in which communes of the capital of Antioquia more use was made of this resource, in which less and where the people who made the custom removal come from.

It should be remembered that this announcement was made after Braulio Espinosa, mayor of Envigado, prohibited the circulation of people who paid for this permit on the two main roads in his municipality: Las Vegas and El Poblado avenue. This added to the initial prohibition in the municipality of Itagüí, in which despite this measure, only certain roads can be used.

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Pick and plate Medellin: 49,270 paid the Special Circulation Permit - Medellin - Colombia

One week after the entry into force of the Special Permit for Circulation during the peak and license plate in Medellin49,270 vehicles were registered using the measure, reaching a collection of 1,565 million pesos.

This corresponds to 2.6% of peak-and-plate drivers who used the tool.

According to the Medellin Mobility Secretariat, these resources will be directed to the Tariff Stabilization Fund with the aim of strengthening the use of public transport.

“The Rate Stabilization Fund is the difference between the technical rate of the value that the massive system costs to provide the service and what users must pay. On average, the city pays 60,000 million pesos to cover this difference annually and with the collection, said payment will be subsidized,” said the technical undersecretary of the Medellin Mobility Secretariat, Víctor Hugo Piedrahíta.

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According to the records, there were drivers who paid for one and up to four days of the month to be able to circulate during the restriction, which is once a week.

The Mobility Agents imposed 227 manual subpoenas on cars and motorcycles and the photodetection cameras recorded 689

During the first week, drivers paid for the measure, as follows: for one day, 28,529 vehicles; for two days, 4,596; for three days, 4,363 and for four days, 11,782. Of the total, one 89.2% of the vehicles are from municipalities other than Medellín.

Likewise, the city chambers accounted for 1,822,505 car trips, 23.48% more than the immediately previous week, while in the case of motorcycles, there is also an increase with 24.86%, which is equivalent to 6,083,880 trips. .

Regarding fines, the mayor’s office explained that “the Mobility Agents imposed 227 manual subpoenas on cars and motorcycles and the photodetection cameras recorded 689, for a total of 925 subpoenas in the week from January 31 to February 4″.

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