A group of bicycle and electric skateboard business owners held a civic stop yesterday in front of Independencia Park to demand the Ministry of the Interior and Police to stop the closure of their businesses and the seizures of these means of transportation by police agents, in operations in Greater Santo Domingo.
With banners and slogans they asked to respect the right to free movement and comply with what was agreed upon in a meeting.
Raymond Jaquez Mejiaspokesperson for the protesters, criticized the siege experienced by the people who travel in those vehicles through the streets, through parks in Santo Domingo Este, the National District and the Colonial Zone of the country’s capital.
He asked Minister Faride Raful to order the cessation of seizures until the National Institute of Traffic and Land Transportation (Intrant) concludes the process initiated to regulate bicycles and electric scooters, as he informed them in a meeting with other authorities of the government agency.
He maintained that the police are holding them and that in the case of the National District City Council, the Directorate of Public Spaces fined a group of owners of these electric vehicles with up to RD$9,000 for two units that circulated on the streets, with the argument that they obstruct public spaces.
The spokesperson Jaquez Mejia He stated that he won a lawsuit before the council, filed in the Third Chamber of the Superior Administrative Court (TSA), which considered the collection of the RD$9,000 illegal.
“The payment is pending return,” he assured.
