Oviedo promises to “end” the “pico y placa” in Bogotá if he is mayor

The former director of Dane and candidate for Mayor of Bogotá, Juan Daniel Oviedo, spoke about the possibility of remove the peak and plate for the cityclarifying that this would in fact be one of his proposals for his campaign.

In statements for ‘Tropicana’, Oviedo clarified that he will seek to “end” this measure for private vehicles, arguing that the objective with which it was created has not been fulfilled.

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“We cannot continue with this measure that has been in force for 30 years and that promotes the culture of hatred of private vehicles.Oviedo said.

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However, he also proposed an alternative for this system: “We are going to put another congestion control measure in the city that helps us understand that each person and each household that uses a means of transportation in Bogotá made the decision to use it for income, or for ease or for their budget.”, he added.

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Likewise, the former director of Dane assured that in the city and in the country there is already information on the behavior and daily flow of traffic in Bogotá. “We cannot continue playing dice, as was the last measure of pico y placa that led many households that have two cars with even and odd license plates to have to take five or six million pesos out of their pockets to exchange one of the cars for a dealer and be able to have enough distance and be able to use both vehicles”, he mentioned.

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One of the alternatives would be, according to the candidate, to create an application similar to mobility applications such as Waze either google maps to know cual They are the roads that can be used to generate greater agility in the displacements during a determined time, according to the traffic flow.

“If I want to go from point A to point B, the City Hall’s recommendation system will give me three alternatives, or two, or five. And in one of them, which is the most agile, I am going to pay a charge per kilometer traveled which, technically, is called a ‘congestion charge’ and every month, at home, I will receive the bill for that taxOviedo explained.

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