Costa Rica’s New Traffic Laws – Loopholes and Problems
The law prohibiting driving in downtown San Jose on certain days of the week, depending on the last digit of their license plate, will be enforced more.
It has been a hell of month with the new traffic laws that took place March 1st to local drivers and the Costa Rican newspapers have been filled with it. The changes were to lighten penalties and lower fines, but in reality due to the numerous loopholes, the Transit Police are applying their own version of the law that has amounted to higher fines in some cases and/or, as one ‘chatter in a forum’ reported, a increase in bribes when she did an illegal passing, got pulled over by the Transit Police and was told the fine was $450, or pay it now with a C-note. She paid it with a C-note.
The laws have been messed up since the beginning when lawmakers begin to submit and debate those that have amounted to over 200 changes since 2008.
This week a review committee found so many errors and constitutional violations in the text they do not expect any type of restructure or modifications until after Semana Santa, or Easter week, leaving the laws an open-range in interpretations and/or some quick bucks for a few as the “chatter” found out very quickly 
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