Q COSTARICA
Q OPINION – The Ministerio de Obras Publicas y Transportes (MOPT), the keeper of our roadways, is being asked by the Comisión Costarricense de Cooperación con la Unesco, part of the Ministry of Public Education (MEP) with a really unmemorable idea to reform the Transit Law to allow only 21-year-old people to drive, a motorcycle or a car in Costa Rica.
And, the thought is this ruling will reduce accidents, lower pollution, not to mention a reduction of vehicle traffic on the streets along with our infamous lines of stop-on-the-spot parking lots called “Presas”.
All this sounds believable except for the downside.
Thousands of young people will be without work, the public transit system, is unreliable, a magnet for crime, cannot adequately transport workers and even younger students even
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