This Wednesday, if your vehicle has a red sticker and the last digit of the plate is 3 or 4, you cannot circulate through any of the 16 boroughs of Mexico City or some municipalities in the State of Mexico that are part of the metropolitan area. Furthermore, if you have sticker 1, you also cannot circulate on the first and third Saturday of the month if the last digit of your plate is odd (1, 3, 5, 7, and 9), between 05:00 and 22:00 hours. If you have sticker 2, the restriction extends to all Saturdays of the month during the same hours.
"Vehicles with sticker 0 and 00 are exempt from these restrictive measures," stated the regulatory authority. However, for foreign vehicles with foreign plates, similar rules apply based on the plate's ending. These must refrain from circulating Monday to Friday from 5:00 to 11:00 hours and cannot do so on any Saturday from 05:00 to 22:00 hours.
The municipalities in the State of Mexico affected by the Hoy No Circula program are Atizapan de Zaragoza, Coacalco de Berriozabal, Cuautitlan, Cuautitlan Izcalli, Chalco, Chimalhuacan, Chicoloapan, Ecatepec de Morelos, Huixquilucan, Ixtapaluca, La Paz, Naucalpan de Juarez, Nezahualcoyotl, Nicolas Romero, Tecamac, Tlalnepantla de Baz, Tultitlan, and Valle de Chalco.
Regarding the 16 boroughs of Mexico City, Hoy No Circula applies in Alvaro Obregon, Azcapotzalco, Benito Juarez, Coyoacan, Cuajimalpa de Morelos, Cuauhtemoc, Gustavo A. Madero, Iztacalco, Iztapalapa, Magdalena Contreras, Miguel Hidalgo, Milpa Alta, Tlahuac, Tlalpan, Venustiano Carranza, and Xochimilco.
In the complementary provisions of the program, it is specified that there are several types of vehicles that are exempt from these limitations, including agricultural tractors, construction and mining machinery, motorcycles, vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of 400 kilograms or less, electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles, vehicles with antique or classic plates, demonstration vehicles, as well as those whose technology prevents the application of the corresponding regulations or that carry the "EXEMPT" sticker.
