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11-21-2007, 12:50 PM
The Metropolitan Transit Authority (AMET), those much feared green-uniformed traffic cops, have handed out nearly 150,000 tickets to drivers in the National District and the province of Santo Domingo over the last three months. This is the result of the first three months under the leadership of General Latif Miguel Mahfoud Rodriguez. Of all those tickets, one fifth of them were for running a red light (30,270). The fine for running a red light, according to an article in Diario Libre, is RD$884, but the offender must attend a Traffic School. The general also told reporters that his agents do not discriminate, pointing out that 593 military and police officers have received traffic citations.
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