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IMOVEQROO Trains 70 Public Transportation Operators in Playa del Carmen

Quintana Roo's mobility institute held a course on driver's license procedures and gender-based violence prevention as part of its push to professionalize public transportation statewide.

By Miguel Díaz Miró · Responsible editor ·
Public transport operators at a training session

Quintana Roo's Institute of Mobility (IMOVEQROO) trained 70 public transportation operators in Playa del Carmen on July 9, in a course that combined two topics: the procedures for issuing driver's licenses and permits, and the prevention of and response to violence against women aboard transit vehicles.

According to the institute, the session brought together public-service drivers and staff from IMOVEQROO's Playa del Carmen branch office. The training was led by that local branch together with the institute's Directorate of License Control and Liaison with Municipalities and Associations, the area responsible for licensing regulations statewide.

The course was split into two blocks. The first reviewed current criteria and requirements for processing and renewing driver's licenses and permits for public transportation. The second covered tools to identify, prevent and respond to violence against women on board transit units, with the goal, in the institute's words, of operators providing "a more efficient, safe service with a gender perspective."

IMOVEQROO framed the training within the New Agreement for the Wellbeing and Development of Quintana Roo, the policy platform championed by Governor Mara Lezama Espinosa, describing it as part of a broader effort to professionalize public transportation that the institute has replicated in other municipalities, including Chetumal.

What does this mean for Cancun and the Riviera Maya? IMOVEQROO is the state authority that issues and renews driver's licenses and permits for taxi drivers, collective-transport operators and other public-service providers across Quintana Roo, including Cancun and Playa del Carmen. Regular refreshers on regulations and gender protocols directly affect how riders are treated on units circulating through the tourist corridor, where public transportation is used daily by workers, students and visitors alike.

Anyone who needs to process or renew a driver's license or permit for public transportation can find requirements by category — taxi, school transport, tourism transport, freight, among others — on IMOVEQROO's official website, imoveqroo.qroo.gob.mx. The institute did not report whether it plans to hold similar sessions in Cancun or other Riviera Maya municipalities.

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