Experts at risk-taking and suicidal driving, motorcycle riders in the region demonstrate daily their ignorance that they are actually operating a motor vehicle and not a toy. Many are delivering every sort of product, from pizza to auto parts. But there are also young people, who have received the motorcycle as a gift, either purchased or stolen, and use it just for kicks, while threatening their lives and those of anyone else who may have the misfortune of stepping into their path.
These motorized demons can be seen at all hours, anywhere in the city, at top speed, racing between vehicles, carelessly hitting their brakes anywhere, "popping wheelies" through intersections, switching lanes with no warning, and in general, blatantly ignoring all the rules of the road.
One of the worst examples is undoubtedly local pizza restaurants, specifically; those that offer express delivery with major discounts if the delivery arrives late. Since then the evil has spread to all the delivery people on two wheels who seem to live or die by the slogan, "better injured than late"; among them are: auto parts distributors, couriers, restaurants, tortillarias, and at the very height of flaunting the law, alcoholic beverages; not to mention "narcomotos" for which, needless to say, the main objective is a rapid delivery of elicit drugs.
You may have read in the news recently, of a special municipal traffic operation aimed at ticketing motorcyclists who have the audacity to deliver tortillas. Established tortilla vendors apparently considered this to be voraciously unfair competition that could push their businesses to the brink of bankruptcy. How paradoxical that Transito officials should undertake a special "operation" against motorcycle tortilla delivery when there are so many far more serious infractions, to take on only this rather than a more widespread operation to punish violators.
These are usually young people, though not exclusively, who ignore traffic laws when operating a motorcycle. Many do not wear a helmet or carry passengers not wearing a helmet, with very noisy exhaust pipes late at night and, worse, speeding through urban areas.
The city government, through the municipal directorate of transito is at last making an effort to control the plague of kamikazes on two wheels through an operation eloquently labeled "motorratón". However, the kamikazes have proven to be very adept at wriggling out of the efforts to control them and very persistent at emerging again and again from their burrows to annoy neighbors and motorists in general.
It is imperative that authorities make every effort to force motorcyclists comply with rules of the road and make motorcyclists finally realize that they are operating a motor vehicle and not a toy.
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