A car improperly parked in the driveway obstructs the exit of the garage. The neighbor calls the line 1950 4000 option 1 of the Municipality of Montevideo (IM)through which the winch service. The same process is repeated when the car is stopped in a loading or reserved zone, or when it is stopped on a bus stop, or when it parks on a curve, and another ten variables in violation.
The commune receives an average of 36 calls like these every day. This is how it arises from a response to a request for access to public information to which he agreed The Observerin which it is indicated that 9,837 winch service requests were processed in the period from November 2021 to July this yearinclusive.
However, only one in four (a total of 2,450 in that period) ended up being a winch with a fine.. “There are 75% of the calls that do not end up being converted into a fine, either because when the winch service arrives, the vehicle reported in violation has already been removed, as well as when the winch goes with an inspector, the fact does not is considered an infraction,” he explained to The Observer the Director of Mobility of the IM, Pablo Inthamoussu.
As observed from the commune, the complaints take place in the areas “with the highest demand for parking”, which include the Center, Ciudad Vieja, Pocitos, Punta Carretas, Parque Batlle and Tres Cruces. “When distributing these calls, we prioritize health centers and blocked garage entrances, which is unfortunately one of the most received complaints”the hierarch pointed out.
As an example, almost a third of the winch orders during 2017 had been for Obstructions of the passage to the exit of buildings –which constituted it in the majority cause–, according to what was communicated by the administration itself. However, the same report shows that little more than two thirds of the winches were at the request of the traffic inspectors themselves on the streets.
The director of mobility recommended to the neighbors that they paint red up to thirty centimeters more than the recess of the cord in front of the entrance of the home, finishing off with a white head about 10 centimeters wide to delimit clearly at what point the parking ban ends.
The current winch service provider is the Cooperativa 31 de Enero, which moves the vehicles to the custody beach located in Cuareim and Francisco Tajes, a large property located in the La Aguada neighborhood. To pick up the car, it is necessary to pay in that same place.
Today the price for the winching is equivalent to $5,230 (3.5 Resettable Units), which tends to total an average of 5 UR ($7,471) when the fine for the verified infraction is added., as indicated by Transit of the quartermaster. Likewise, each hour that the vehicle is held in the custody area carries an extra charge of $80.
From the borrower they estimated that there are cars that remain in the place between five and six hours before being searched by their owners. Of the 3.5 UR charged for lifting the vehicle, the cooperative is responsible for 1.8 UR (half).
The site is open Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., and is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends. The telephone line for complaints, for its part, extends from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. from Monday to Sunday.
Inthamoussu, meanwhile, clarified that “with each winching there is a communication system with the Ministry of the Interior.” “Many times people go to file a complaint for the theft of the vehicle, when in reality it was hoisted. The police authorities are aware of each transfer or hoisting that is carried out on public roads”exposed the hierarch.
