IMM went out to supervise the bikes with free escape

Posted by Coco on November 15th, 2018

Inspectors controlled all types of infractions, in most cases, they did not wear reflective vests.

On the side of the street, at the roundabout of General Flores and Battle Ordonez, a group of inspectors was stationed on the morning of yesterday. The objective: to check if motorcyclists wore helmets, if they had lights on, driving and property books and if they wore reflective vests with reflective tape for clothing. Some of the officials, held in their hands a sound level meter to control that the noises of the motorcycles did not exceed the allowed decibels.

Marcela Baste, Transit Director of the IMM, who was present during the procedure, said that "there were few" cases of birr dados that exceeded the limit of 100 decibels. "When we find that infraction, what we do, before putting a fine on it, is to give the driver a period of 10 days to appear in the Municipality with the repaired exhaust pipe, otherwise the fine will be applied. It is 10 Resettable Units". In the event that in another procedure it is detected that the vehicle is in the same condition or did not make the repair, the motorcycle is directly removed.

As explained by Baste, the largest number of complaints of annoying motorcycle noise are given at night or at dawn, when there are almost no sounds in the streets. "Many times it happens that we take the measurement of noise and do not exceed 100 decibels, but it annoys the escape because of the silence that there is in the streets, although we cannot sanction if that level is not exceeded," he said.

Half an hour after the start of the operation, each of the eight inspectors had arrested more than 10 motorcyclists. None refused at the signal of the agents. First, they asked for the documents, they checked them with the license plates and then they were asked: "And the reflecting vest?"

The majority tried to give an excuse to get away from the moment: they said that they had stolen it recently, that they had fallen down the street or that they had forgotten it.

When the inspector went to a box they had on the sidewalk and grabbed a vest to give it to him for free, and proceeded to give him a little talk about the importance of wearing it, the motorcyclists were sincere and admitted that they had never bought the vest or They did not know that it was mandatory to use it.

"Even though we worked on this issue all last year, we have seen many people without the reflective vest," said Baste. He added: "What we are looking for is your safety and that of the rest since a person wearing a vest with reflective material is 17 times more visible than one who does not wear it".

Another of the complaints that IMM commonly receives is about the deliveries that often commit infractions: they pass with red light, they do not use all the required protection systems and they circulate at high speeds. Baste explained that Unisex is working "directly with them", conducting training courses.

"They have identified them and they know which companies have hired them, but what that job has is that it is not permanent: today a person is delivery and not tomorrow, so it is difficult to have them controlled," he said.

"We criticize motorcyclists very much but we also complain when the food is late or cold, I am sure that none of us when the food arrives with a delivery we notice if it has a helmet or if it has a reflective vest. we need them, "he said.