Cancun Traffic Police motorist crackdown

[Mindbender]

The traffic police when you are approaching and travelling through Cancun are being extra vigilant at the moment. They're pulling over motorists for any infringement of the law: undertaking, jumping the lights, speeding etc. You can face having your licence and number plate taken which you have to retrieve from the council after paying a $900 fine.

Leaving Playa going north there is often a policeman with a speed gun too.

Drive safe.

[Michele]

Yes, also on the highway just south of the turn around that brings you to the Playacar entrances, there is a radar trap. It's a few hundred yards south of the new Hong Kong Chinese place.

[StephenB]

Ah, the good old days when there was only the occasional motorcycle cop with the 50cc whom you could easily outrun with even the crummiest VW!

[Kellygirl]

Highway 307 is called the Highway of Death by locals. At least one death a week, I've been told. If the cops can stop some of the speeding, they are welcome.

[Michele]

Originally Posted by Kellygirl

Highway 307 is called the Highway of Death by locals. At least one death a week, I've been told. If the cops can stop some of the speeding, they are welcome.

I agree.

[Mindbender]

Speed doesn't kill.

These things do: stupidity, ignorance, machismo, alcohol, drugs, never learning to drive but 'buying' your licence, bad road surfaces, unclear signs, bad road planning, bad or no lighting, traffic lights high enough for aeroplanes but not low enough for motorists, no white lines for lane divisions or junctions, not indicating, undertaking, not using your mirrors, using the mobile, lighting a cigarette, playing with the radio, being distracted by your passengers, not thinking ahead, tailgating, changing lanes without looking, not using seatbelts, unsecure loads and passengers in the back of lorries, overloaded mopeds, dangerous retornos, driving too slow, scrapyard vehicles still on the road, thinking it's 'cultural' to ignore or bend the rules.

What I really need is a Challenger tank.

[cuffedlinks]

This is another reason I like taking those BIG Mercedes bus transfers.

[chacha]

I would be so pleased if warning signs could be placed at least five feet IN FRONT of the topes instead of directly above them....if there is a sign at all. What is the reasoning behind the placement of a sign? Who makes the decisions as to where signs are placed? Do you think the person who decides where to put the tope signs drives?

[Seakony]

I think the biggest problem are the taxi drivers and the busses. The busses will cut you off and run you off the roads. It's so funny how everything is so slow in Mexico until they get behind the wheels.

[Michael]

Originally Posted by chacha

I would be so pleased if warning signs could be placed at least five feet IN FRONT of the topes instead of directly above them....if there is a sign at all. What is the reasoning behind the placement of a sign? Who makes the decisions as to where signs are placed? Do you think the person who decides where to put the tope signs drives?

I was told that the Mexican government had hired a team of the best mathematicians to study this. After extensive research at one of the leading universities in Mexico they determined that people would drive slower if a certain proportion of advanced warning signs were removed. It was also determined that the best result would be created if they also removed a smaller number of signs present at the actual topes, leaving some topes particularly those near small villages without any signs. After completing this research study the government then sent out highly trained technicians into the field to remove some of the signs following a strict pattern based upon a complex statistical analysis that used the algorithms from the research above. I looked in Snopes and found no reference, so I assume this is true.

[Michele]

Several of the topes on 307 have recently been removed. I'm curious......

[StewartG]

I think I've figured out how I'm going to be able to afford to move to playa... I'm going to start importing CB radios!!!

Breaker breaker uno nueve, tenemos pared a pared osos anoche!!!

[Mindbender]

Originally Posted by chacha

...Who makes the decisions as to where signs are placed?

The council. Although private companies are also hired to make them.

Overall I think the topes, invisible road line paint and sign removal policy are sponsored by the accident repair companies.

[KevKaos]

Worst Playa pick-up line EVER (as per LaRosaBlanca): "Come with me to the bathroom & I give you something special "

StewartG, did I miss a good posting somewhere??????

[Mindbender]

Originally Posted by KevKaos

StewartG, did I miss a good posting somewhere??????

I think it's about laxative.