Tourists Say Tulum Police Charged Them 20,000 Pesos for a 3,800 Peso Fine
Tulum police extortion is reported by visitors every day. What the municipal traffic rulebook actually authorizes, what a fine costs, and where to report an officer.
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Tulum police extortion is reported by visitors every day. What the municipal traffic rulebook actually authorizes, what a fine costs, and where to report an officer.
Imoveqroo says the 24-zone fare board Tulum's taxi union published is not authorized, and that taximeters in Tulum are the answer. One La Veleta fare rose from 31 pesos to 100 pesos.
A minor died, and two people were injured in a Cobá motorcycle crash on Saturday. The ambulance sent from Tulum broke down, and neighbors drove the survivors to Valladolid.
Tulum road closures began Monday for a CAPA sewer connection at Faisán and La Selva. The notice gives three days, then states that the work will run for an indefinite period.
Tulum taxi fares rose as much as 223 percent on an unsigned union list. The prices match those in Madrid, where workers earn about six times as much as in Quintana Roo.
A 24-zone table has pushed Tulum taxi fares as high as 100 pesos on rides the state priced at 31 pesos. It shows no agreement number, signature, or stamp.
Tiburones del Caribe says its Tulum taxi app will launch on the Play Store in about 10 days, featuring fares for cruising cabs and schedules for the colectivos.
Motorcycle noise in Tulum returned to the municipal agenda nearly four months after an operation against modified exhausts, with residents asking why the checks stopped and the noise did not.
Tulum's Señorita Independencia 2026 and her two fellow titleholders were chosen via a digital form, with no public presentation and no publicly available voting controls.
The Tulum construction slowdown has moved from the site count to the paycheck. The CROC says a skilled bricklayer's weekly earnings have fallen from 6,000 pesos to about 3,000.
UNTRAC says two Tulum-to-Playa del Carmen colectivo stops were dropped on the main avenue and accuses the city of clearing curb space for a rival union. The city has not responded.
Electricity bills in Tulum are based on CFE tariff 1B, where the subsidy ends at 400 kilowatt-hours. How to read the recibo and the charge the courts struck down.
Tulum beach access, reconstructed from the federal record. Decrees, tenders, 706 canceled titles, and documents that have not yet been published.
Tulum and Bacalar producers get municipal transport to sell their harvests in each other's towns without an intermediary. The same two mayors announced a version of this in 2025.
The hospitals in Tulum are two, one public and one private, plus a free Red Cross ambulance. What each treats, what the law makes an ER do, and where referrals go.
Power outages in Tulum start in the last kilometer of the network. Who supplies the service, why the rain trips the circuits, and why the same three colonias go first.
Do not drink the tap water in Tulum. What it is fine for, what a garrafón costs, and why the aquifer under the town, not the tap itself, is the reason.
Two Tulum colectivo stops on Highway 307 went quiet to ease congestion. Untrac says the bays may now be reserved for a single union, and riders are walking farther.
Three people detained in the city center on drug and weapons charges are now linked to the Tulum taxi driver murder, the state attorney general said. No motive has been made public.
Quintana Roo's prosecutor announced four Tulum homicide arrests, including a Canadian national and a 17-year-old, in cases tied to the killings of a taxi driver and another man.
Repatriation flights at Tulum airport now move 1,000 to 1,200 passengers a month onto ADO buses, a flow the company says did not exist a year ago.