Auto speed limit for city streets: Callao sets new maximum at 37 miles per hour

After careful investigation on the subject of motor traffic and road safety, Peru’s Callao port and municipal authorities have set speed limits for main city streets at a maximum of 60 kilometers, or 37 miles, per hour. Because urban and residential developments are on the rise, Callao has also set speed limits of 40 kilometers, [...]

Peru government and transportation strikers meet for talks after 24-hour strike

Dialogue begins today in Lima between Ministry of Transport officials and the leaders of the association of mass urban transport companies, following the strike on Tuesday in Lima of approximately 260,000 private-sector bus and taxi drivers. The strike was held to protest a new transport law that sharply increases traffic fines. Only a few buses [...]