translated from Spanish: Government announces sanitary customs for long weekend: It is estimated that more than 200 thousand vehicles leave the RM

High circulation of vehicles is expected for this long weekend, as it is expected that more than 200 thousand cars will leave the Metropolitan region, so the Minister of Public Works, Alfredo Moreno, announced that sanitary customs will work. Moreno said that “this is a very special long weekend: we are in winter vacation, the entire Metropolitan Region in phase 2, even Valparaiso in phase 3, we also have a choice of two important conglomerates, and for that reason we believe that we are going to have an intense flow on the interurban roads.” Along these lines, according to the projections reported by the authority, it is estimated that between 210 thousand and 215 cars will leave the RM. The person in charge of the portfolio announced that “sanitary customs, and not sanitary cordons” will work to make sure that travelers have the documents required to move. In this line, Moreno explained that “in the cordon sanitaire all cars are stopped, therefore, the time it takes and the congestion that occurs is very great; and the situation we are in now is the sanitary customs, in which (the inspection) is going to be random, intense, but always considering keeping the flow on the roads, and in that way make the trip more issued within what is possible”.

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