Costa Rica's Road Safety Council tenders an intelligent transportation system for transit technology management, with a reference value of $39 million.
The Directorate General of Taxation has suspended the decree that prevented agencies and distributors from importing latest model vehicles, corresponding to 2018.
The restriction on imports of 2018 models came into effect in October last year, when the Ministry of Finance issued Decree No. 39941-H.
Of all vehicles circulating in the country at the end of 2015, 63% were automobiles, 19% motorcycles, 13% light duty vehicles and 3% heavy load vehicles.
Figures from the report "Vehicular Fleet in Central America" prepared by the Business Intelligence unit at CentralAmericaData.com, indicate that 1.3 million vehicles were in circulation up to December 2015, of which 63% were cars.
In the last four years motorcycle sales grew by 25%, and at the end of this year the industry expects to register 70,000 new units.
Crhoy.com reports that "... Figures from the Association of Motorcycle Importers and Allied Workers (AIMA) indicate that in 2006 approximately 10,000 motorcycles were registered per year, by the end of 2016 the projection is that 70,000 new units will have been registered."
Costa Rica's lack of actions to address the problems of road infrastructure is beginning to take its toll directly, preventing the development of areas with clear productive vocation.
The very success of an area with comparative advantages for operating free zones, call centers and corporate offices, such as those close to Juan Santamaria International Airport, has become a detonator triggering the paralysis suffered by investments in construction of new buildings, simply because of vehicle congestion in Belen, in the Greater Metropolitan area of Costa Rica, is so bad that it is normal to take up to 50 minutes to travel 4 kilometers from the area in question to the access road to the center of the capital.
Tour operators are reporting that the increased amount of traffic fines are having a direct negative impact on tourism.
From a press release:
ACAR and CANATUR request urgent Transit Law Reform
• High number of traffic violations captured by cameras could lead to bankruptcy for companies providing car hire services
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