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SANTO DOMINGO.- The Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET) seized 314 vehicles last weekend, in operation against motorists who didn’t buy the sticker to renew their license plate on time.

Amet commander Ernesto Rodriguez said the vehicles were taken to the old greyhound race track, where owners can recover them after they pay the fine and buy the sticker, and that the number of vehicles retained by traffic police in different parts of the capital overflowed the track’s capacity.

The fine to recover an impounded vehicle is RD$1,030; the sticker costs RD$1,200 (RD$2,200 for newer models), and the surcharge is RD$500 for failing to renew within the period established by Internal Taxes (DGII).

Rodriguez warned that the ticketing and vehicle retention by police will intensify today Monday across the country.

The deadline to renew plates expired Friday, November 28, when as many as 10 percent (75,000) of the 800,000 motorists had yet to comply.

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Written by: dreadlocks, 1 Dec 2008 10:40 AM
From: United States
let me repeat this; why cannot the government institute 20th century approaches to this issue? why not have the registration last for one or two years, starting the day of registration? that way, if you bought a car in july of this year, you renew july next year? what is with this prehistoric annual rush? 11 months of the year the motor vehicle guys do nothing, then, come october, the lines are around the block. does anybody here think?
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Written by: juanb, 1 Dec 2008 11:53 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Dread:

Look around you. See anyone thinking, other than a politician planning his next theft?
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Written by: dreadlocks, 1 Dec 2008 12:13 PM
From: United States
juanb, sadly, i must concur. this is not rocket science; all the other caribbean islands have done it that way since the horse and buggy days. maybe they keep it like this so they can fleece the procrastinators. i see no other reason for this anachronism.
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Written by: jacirez, 1 Dec 2008 1:31 PM
From: Canada, Northern Alberta
dreadlocks, juanb,
Did you know that the Chinese ideograph for success is a combination of the symbols for crisis + opportunity...?
The success of the bureaucrats running this program depends on the confusion that such a crisis represent and the degree of opportunity they have to take advantage of it...
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Written by: dreadlocks, 1 Dec 2008 2:30 PM
From: United States
a most sage observation, jacirez. there must be a benefit to some bureaucrat to keep such a bizarre system in place. somebody is making ill gotten gains somewhere in the chain.
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Written by: texasshoe, 1 Dec 2008 2:42 PM
From: United States, Richmond, Texas
Dread,

You and I have touched on this point before-"planning" It seems to have been left out of all standard operating procedure manuals in the DR.

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Written by: dreadlocks, 1 Dec 2008 2:49 PM
From: United States
texasshoe, there is planning all right. the planning is just misdirected. instead of planning which makes things easier, and more manageable, it makes it more difficult. then you have to pay a buscon to fix it. so, if you do not want to waste a whole day registering your car, you can pay some guy at the motor vehicle department to "expedite "the issue. they have it all planned, texasshoe. in the USA, the aim is to take a big problem and make it small. in the DR, you take a small problem and make it big. that way, the "abogado" you have to hire ,if you want to buy a hacksaw blade ,will make a fortune!
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Written by: chillaxin201, 1 Dec 2008 11:43 PM
From: Iraq, 10 billion dollars a month for nothing
Leo needs his money to give his cronies
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