Hoy No Circula
License plate 4409Q... which day can't I drive it in Mexico City? Thanks in advance!
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The original thought was to lessen the traffic congestion, that did not work out, every one bought two or three vehicles with different plates or from the adjacent states so they kept the "hoy no circula" and started the smog check "Verificacion" in the hopes that the pollution would go down, this has worked to a great extent, they got rid of the old carbureted polluters but they missed extending the Metro system to the outskirts where most of the population lives and the politicos have the taxi, bus and minibus "combis" concessions for the extended colonies out side of the Federal District, so instead of solving the congestion and pollution the result is more vehicles on the road although the pollution has diminished with the fuel injected vehicles and the low sulfur diesel that is imported from the USA .
Anything that needs to be done has to be done between 10:00 AM and no latter than 12:30PM, after 14:00 hours the traffic is impossible with the mothers going for the school kids in taxis and driving while chatting on the phone and they create the worst traffic jams by double and triple parking waiting for the micro terrorist to get out of school, all the way from pre-kinder to high school.
After the kids get out of school the mothers go shopping and the traffic is brutal, no parking places or taxis so the after noon's are shot for going long distances, crossing from one end of the city to the other in the afternoon takes from 2 to 3 hours, in the mornings about one hour.
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Anything that needs to be done has to be done between 10:00 AM and no latter than 12:30PM, after 14:00 hours the traffic is impossible with the mothers going for the school kids in taxis and driving while chatting on the phone and they create the worst traffic jams by double and triple parking waiting for the micro terrorist to get out of school, all the way from pre-kinder to high school.
After the kids get out of school the mothers go shopping and the traffic is brutal, no parking places or taxis so the after noon's are shot for going long distances, crossing from one end of the city to the other in the afternoon takes from 2 to 3 hours, in the mornings about one hour.
navegator
