Jalisco Secretaría de Movilidad (SM) officials say U.S. manufactured anti-photo license covers designed to make car tags invisible to speed cameras do not work.  Selling the micas (covers) with the promise that motorists will be able to escape speeding tickets is fraudulent and should be denounced at the Consumer Protection Agency, say Movilidad officials. 

Two firefighting aircraft rented by the Zapopan municipal government from the United States last week were put to use immediately.

Guadalajara transportation authorities have thrown cold water on calls to introduce a program similar to Mexico “City’s “Hoy No Circula” (Day Without a Car) – for the short term at least.

Civic groups have demanded tough measures to halt rising contamination mostly caused by 1.7 million vehicles circulating in the metropolitan area.

Around 45 people gathered on Sunday morning to participate in the first Jane’s Walk neighborhood tour in Guadalajara. Led by volunteers and offered for free, the annual walks are named after American-Canadian urban activist and writer Jane Jacobs.

A fire started by day trippers in the Primavera Forest on Sunday consumed 132 hectares of mostly vegetation and brushland and took 200 firefighters and emergency personal more than 48 hours to control.

Firefighters believed they had contained the fire early on Monday but strong afternoon winds rekindled the flames.

Representatives of onstruction firms hired to work on venues for the 2011 Pan American Games demonstrated outside the state Government Palace this week demanding to be paid around 350 million pesos (29million dollars) they say they are owed.

Just before he left office in March Jalisco Governor Emilio Gonzalez negotiated a loan, part of which was to be used to pay off the government’s Pan American Games debts.