7 countries checked against their own official sources. A country with no scheme is an answer, not a gap — and where an authority would not answer us, this page says that instead.
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Costa Rica now carries both of its schemes — San José's hora/placa restriction and the rush-hour ban on heavy goods vehicles under Decreto 38238-MOPT — so the second-largest gap here has closed too, and what closed it is worth remembering: not the blocked publisher opening, but a ministerial resolution quoting verbatim the table the gazette had printed as a picture.
Three gaps remain and none of them is a fact about the roads. Nicaragua answers HTTP 200 and refuses us in the body: the Alcaldía de Managua and the Policía Nacional both serve "The requested URL was rejected", and the National Assembly's sitemap is empty, so nothing about Nicaragua is bounded.
Belize's central government estate is unreadable (a 503, a self-signed certificate and a certificate that does not cover its own name), though the city council and press office inventories were counted.
And two published rules still cannot be described: Guatemala's heavy-goods ban, whose scope is delegated to an instrument nobody names, and article 2 of Costa Rica's own decree, the festival-date ban whose table is an image in the gazette and empty in the consolidated text.
Checked against the publisher's own listing of everything it holds — 500 pages from Belize City Council, 2,564 pages from Government of Belize Press Office. We still cannot read https://transport.gov.bz/ (TLS certificate does not cover this name (ERR_TLS_CERT_ALTNAME_INVALID)); https://belize.gov.bz/ (HTTP 503); https://www.gov.bz/ (self-signed TLS certificate), so treat this as unfinished rather than clear — we do not work around a block.
No access restriction appears in either Belizean inventory we could read. The Belize City Council's sitemap holds 500 pages and the Government Press Office's holds 2,564; between them the vocabulary matches twice, and both matches are health warnings about a document "in circulation". The central government estate could not be read at all.
One trap is worth recording: belizecity.bz answers HTTP 200 with 20 KB of HTML and is a domain-for-sale parking page, not the council — a 200 from the address you expected is not the publisher you expected.
Read on the authority's own pages, which is as far as what they link goes. We still cannot read https://www.mopt.go.cr (DNS does not resolve this name at all (ENODATA on both A and AAAA), so there was never a TCP connection to time out — the label this entry carried until 12 September 2026.
The ministry's documents were reached through SINALEVI and the Imprenta Nacional instead, which is why the Costa Rica records exist.); https://msj.go.cr (TLS certificate could not be verified); https://www.csv.go.cr/ (HTTP 200 serving a Radware CAPTCHA: "your activity and behavior on this site made us think that you are a bot"), so treat this as unfinished rather than clear — we do not work around a block.
Both Costa Rican schemes are now published here, and the second one took five cycles to settle because we were looking at the wrong kind of gap.
SINALEVI, the Procuraduría General de la República's consolidated legislation system, serves Decreto Ejecutivo 37370-MOPT (the San José hora/placa restriction) at version 19 of 19 and Decreto Ejecutivo 38238-MOPT (the rush-hour ban on heavy goods vehicles) at version 7 of 7, naming each as the version in force.
The heavy-goods decree had stood as a withheld candidate because the two tables its articles point at render as nothing. We have now read the decree as originally published — La Gaceta N° 80 of 28 April 2014, pages 2-3, at imprentanacional.go.cr, which answers HTTP 200 — and the tables are not text there either: they are three greyscale images in the gazette itself. So the gap was never SINALEVI's.
What closed it was the other half of our own next_source: MOPT resolución 2024-000238 of 13 February 2024 quotes the whole of article 1 verbatim, both bands, route by route — and suspends the afternoon ban on routes 1, 3, 27 and 32, which is a fact no reading of the decree alone would have given us. Article 2's festival-date table remains unread, and the record says so to the driver rather than filling it in.
Three ministry and municipal channels still refuse us and are listed below; none is load-bearing for either finding, but each is still the only route to a San José municipal rule if one exists.
Found in force here, and not yet recordable:
Checked against the publisher's own listing of everything it holds — 1,506 pages from Alcaldía de San Salvador.
San Salvador's own inventory holds no standing access restriction. The only traffic restrictions it announces are temporary and event-driven — road closures for a fairground installation — which is not a scheme a driver can plan around.
Checked against the publisher's own listing of everything it holds — 1,256 pages from Departamento de Tránsito de la Policía Nacional Civil.
A real restriction is published, the regulation behind it was read, and it still cannot be recorded. The traffic police state that the hours banning heavy goods vehicles from circulating, 05:00-09:00 and 16:00-21:00, remain in force, with a Q500 fine under article 184.3 of the Reglamento de Tránsito. Reading article 184 settles what that citation is: a penalty provision, not a rule.
184.3 fines driving 'cuando exista restricción dispuesta por la autoridad' and 184.4 fines a goods vehicle 'en horarios o rutas prohibidas' — both delegate the hours, the routes and the area to an instrument they do not name. So the scope exists somewhere we have not found, and we will not infer 'nationwide' from a notice that declines to say.
Found in force here, and not yet recordable:
Checked against the publisher's own listing of everything it holds — 253 pages from Alcaldía Municipal del Distrito Central.
Tegucigalpa's own inventory holds no access restriction. Its four matches are roadworks, traffic-flow changes and an enforcement drive against mototaxis — none of them a rule that governs whether a given vehicle may enter an area.
We still cannot read https://www.managua.gob.ni/ (HTTP 200 whose whole body is "The requested URL was rejected. Please consult with your administrator."); https://www.policia.gob.ni/ (HTTP 200, same rejection body); https://mti.gob.ni/ (ECONNRESET (Ministerio de Transporte e Infraestructura)); https://www.asamblea.gob.ni/sitemap.xml (HTTP 200 with zero URLs; robots.txt is 404, so there is no declared inventory), so treat this as unfinished rather than clear — we do not work around a block.
Nothing was established, and the reason is worth stating precisely: two of the three channels answer HTTP 200 and then refuse us in the body.
The Alcaldía de Managua and the Policía Nacional both return a 607-byte and a 187-byte page reading "The requested URL was rejected" with a support ID — a firewall rejection dressed as a successful response, which is exactly the shape a page-count would have mistaken for a clean negative. The National Assembly answers properly but declares no sitemap and serves an empty one, so there is no inventory to count.
Checked against the publisher's own listing of everything it holds — 6,547 pages from Municipio de Panamá. We still cannot read https://www.transito.gob.pa/sitemap.xml (TLS/connection error, no inventory), so treat this as unfinished rather than clear — we do not work around a block.
Panama City's own inventory holds no access restriction. Every match for the vocabulary is administrative — registration plates and circulation-tax stickers being available for collection — and the narrower needles for a restriction scheme match nothing at all. The national transit authority could not be read.