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01-25-2011, 06:30 PM
The director general of the Ground Transport Office (Transito Terrestre), Luis Estrella announced yesterday that the agency would be making it easier for motorcycle drivers to get their drivers license. There are an estimated 1.6 motorcycles in use in the country.
The theoretical exam will be replaced by an educational talk. He added that these changes would be introduced on 1 March, and that the talks would be required for obtaining the document and fulfilling the requirements of the Transit Law (Law 241). Estrella told Hoy newspaper reporters that the initiative follows a suggestion made by the National Organization of Motorcycle Drivers to Public Works Minister Victor Diaz Rua. The Ministry of Public Works is in charge of the ground transport department. Estrella noted that motorcycles are known to be involved in most traffic accidents in the country. Estrella pointed out that only 25,000 of the country's more than one million motorcyclists have licenses, and in all of 2010, only 700 people obtained a motorcycle license that costs RD$750.
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The theoretical exam will be replaced by an educational talk. He added that these changes would be introduced on 1 March, and that the talks would be required for obtaining the document and fulfilling the requirements of the Transit Law (Law 241). Estrella told Hoy newspaper reporters that the initiative follows a suggestion made by the National Organization of Motorcycle Drivers to Public Works Minister Victor Diaz Rua. The Ministry of Public Works is in charge of the ground transport department. Estrella noted that motorcycles are known to be involved in most traffic accidents in the country. Estrella pointed out that only 25,000 of the country's more than one million motorcyclists have licenses, and in all of 2010, only 700 people obtained a motorcycle license that costs RD$750.
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