19/04/2011. At the beginning of the Easter holiday period, the PAN deputy, Javier Gil Ortiz, called on the federal government to strengthen safety measures on the roads, considering that assaults on these roads have almost tripled in the last four years.
He explained that while in 2006 there were 289 road assaults, in 2007 there were 507; in 2008 there were 692 cases and in 2010 the figure reached 826. The situation becomes even more serious, since according to figures from the Federal Police, 90 percent of the crimes on the country's roads are committed with violence.
In addition, losses of nine billion dollars are recorded each year throughout the business sector, including industry and transportation of securities, and in each case the losses are, on average, between one and two million pesos, according to data from the Mexican Association of Private Security Companies and Satellite Industry.
The PAN legislator recalled that he proposed an initiative to reform the Law of Roads, Bridges and Federal Motor Transport, to increase security measures in bus terminals, as well as regulate the ascent of passengers at intermediate points and suppress boarding in unpopulated places.
Javier Gil Ortiz, president of the Transport Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, censured that the development of road infrastructure has not considered the increase in the permanent surveillance of land routes; Proof of this is that in recent years a wave of crimes against users of national roads has proliferated, which has not been stopped.
Even, he said, despite the checkpoints installed in various parts of the country, regarding the war against drug trafficking and organized crime, which is headed by the federal government.
And he emphasized that the constant assaults suffered by bus users of the federal public passenger service call into question the security mechanisms with which they operate, despite the fact that the criminals and their modus operandi have been fully identified.
The Tamaulipas legislator explained that, on some occasions, thieves board the units in the terminals circumventing the few security devices, and then take advantage of the poor surveillance on the road and strip users and drivers of their belongings.
In other cases, he explained that the assailants take advantage of the fact that the buses make stops that even the Ministry of Communications and Transport authorizes, which do not have the slightest security measure, thus facilitating this type of crime.
Source: oem.com.mx
