Goiânia, Brazil · Heavy vehicle ban
Not in force in Goiânia right nowTuesday, 13 October 2026 at 06:05 · America/Sao Paulo
Starts Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 07:00 local time.
The two thresholds are read as OR rather than AND, and that is a reading rather than a quotation. The instrument prints "Acima de 8,30 Toneladas" and "Acima de 8,0 metros" as two columns of a single row and never writes a conjunction between them. The 2011 table it replaced had a second row — "Até 7,0 Toneladas" with "Até 8,0 (oito) metros" for "Sem restrição" — which only makes sense if a vehicle has to pass both tests to be unrestricted, and that is why OR is encoded. If the authority meant AND, this schedule over-warns a short heavy lorry and a long light one; the error costs a detour rather than a citation, which is the direction it was chosen in.
There is no public-holiday clause, because none of the three instruments has one, and this is the eleventh Brazilian record running without a sourced Brazilian holiday calendar. The direction of the error is unknown rather than merely unencoded: São Paulo's equivalent scheme excepts holidays by name and Salvador's does not, so Goiânia could fall either way.
Weekends are shown open because the publisher restricts nothing on them. Every version of the table is headed "2ª a 6ª feira" and none mentions Saturday or Sunday.
The exemptions are the flexibility and they are not encoded. An urban goods vehicle up to 7.0 t and 8.0 m, an emergency or utility vehicle in service, and the 08:00–16:00 trades — concrete, cranes, spoil, removals, perishable food — all run inside these hours lawfully; the rule above will show them as refused.
This encodes the zone and nothing else. The same portaria bars car-carrier combinations over 14 metres from the entire urban perimeter of Goiânia at 07:00–09:00, 11:00–14:00 and 17:00–19:00 — outside this zone as well as inside it — and a driver reading "open at 19:30" off this schedule is right here and wrong about nothing, but a driver reading "open at 10:00 two kilometres north of the zone" in a cegonha is wrong.
Operating times only, read from the source below. It does not check your vehicle.
Goiânia closes a bounded piece of its centre to lorries for the whole working day.
Inside the Zona de Restrição de Tráfego I — the area enclosed by the fourteen public roads the municipality lists in Anexo I of Portaria nº 224/2011 - AMT, running from Avenida Independência and Rua 68 in the Setor Central round through Alameda dos Buritis, the Setor Sul and the Setor Leste Universitário — a lorry over 8.30 tonnes gross or over 8.0 metres long may not circulate between 07:00 and 19:00, Monday to Friday.
Outside those hours, and at any hour on a Saturday or Sunday, the rule says nothing. The thresholds are the municipality's second attempt at them: the 2011 portaria set the weight line at 7.0 tonnes, and Portaria nº 70/2013 - SMT raised it to 8.30 while leaving the 8.0 metres and the 07:00–19:00 window untouched.
"Tonnes" is defined in the instrument itself as Peso Bruto Total, tare plus maximum payload, so it is what the vehicle may weigh rather than what it happens to be carrying.
The way out is not a payment but an exemption list that the authority wrote into the rule: urban goods vehicles up to 7.0 t and 8.0 m, emergency and utility work, tow trucks, the post, refuse collection and valuables transport may run at any hour, while concrete, crane lorries, spoil removal, house moves and perishable food get the middle of the day, 08:00 to 16:00. What this record cannot tell a driver is the price.
Article 8 of the portaria sends a breach to article 187 of the Brazilian traffic code and stops there — it names the article and never states a sum — so the penalty here is null with a note rather than a figure we looked up ourselves.
What is unusually well settled is whether the rule still binds: on 15 July 2025 the mayor of Goiânia vetoed a bill in the city's own gazette on the ground that it disregarded "a Lei nº 9.028, de 2011, e as Portarias nº 224, de 2011, nº 70, de 2013, e nº 21, de 2015", which he described as the rules that govern heavy-vehicle traffic, its hours, its routes and its restriction zones.
That is the head of the executive naming this exact chain of instruments, in force, fourteen months before we read it.
Agência Municipal de Trânsito, Transportes e Mobilidade (AMT), Prefeitura de Goiânia — Portaria nº 224/2011 - AMT, signed 18 October 2011 and published in the Diário Oficial do Município nº 5.214 of 21 October 2011, pages 9–12. This is the founding instrument and the only place the zone is defined: article 2 makes it the area bounded by the roads in Anexo I, article 3 sets the timetable, article 4 adds the separate city-wide car-carrier ban, articles 5 to 7 set the permit and the exemptions and article 8 sends a breach to the federal code. The url watched here is the municipality's own SILEG index of that edition, which returns the extracted text of the gazette as JSON; the edition itself is a 3.77 MB PDF at https://www.goiania.go.gov.br/Download/legislacao/diariooficial/2011/do_20111021_000005214.pdf, and it is a PDF rather than the SILEG endpoint because D-077 forbids watching a source the monitor cannot read
There is no charge. The Zona de Restrição de Tráfego is a prohibition, not a charging scheme: nothing in Portaria nº 224/2011 - AMT or in either of its two amendments offers a toll, a day pass or a payable entry that would buy a lorry into the zone between 07:00 and 19:00.
The only routes in are the exemptions article 7 lists by trade and the special authorisation article 5 lets the authority grant "em situações extraordinárias", and the instrument describes that authorisation as something the authority furnishes to the interested party, never as something priced.
Whether applying for it carries an administrative fee is a question this record cannot answer, because the publisher does not raise it.
Monday to Friday, 07:00 to 19:00. The instrument states it as a table rather than a sentence: article 3 of Portaria nº 224/2011 - AMT, as replaced by article 1 of Portaria nº 70/2013 - SMT, sets out "Caminhões · Comprimento · Horário de Restrição de Circulação · 2ª a 6ª feira" against a single row reading "Acima de 8,30 Toneladas · Acima de 8,0 metros · 7h às 19h".
Twelve hours of every working day, with no second band and no split around the peaks — Goiânia shuts the zone to lorries for the whole working day rather than protecting the rush hours, which is a longer closure than Manaus applies to its 8-tonne class and a shorter one than São Paulo's ZMRC. There is no Saturday window, no Sunday window and no public-holiday clause anywhere in the three instruments.
The 2011 original ran the same 07:00–19:00 window against a 7.0-tonne line; only the weight moved in 2013, and it moved upwards, which makes the current rule the more permissive of the two.
Secretaria Municipal de Trânsito, Transportes e Mobilidade (SMT), Prefeitura de Goiânia — Portaria nº 70/2013 - SMT, signed 10 October 2013 by the Secretary, Patricia Pereira Veras, and published in the Diário Oficial do Município nº 5.697 of 14 October 2013. It replaces article 3 of the 2011 portaria with the table this record encodes and replaces article 4 with the 14-metre car-carrier rule, and its own article 3 delays both by 180 days from publication. The url watched here is the municipality's SILEG index of that edition; the gazette itself is a 4.24 MB PDF at https://www.goiania.go.gov.br/Download/legislacao/diariooficial/2013/do_20131014_000005697.pdf
A closed central perimeter, described by its edges rather than by its interior. Article 2 of Portaria nº 224/2011 - AMT defines the Zona de Restrição de Tráfego as "a área abrangida e limitada pelos logradouros públicos relacionado no Anexo I", and Anexo I lists thirteen of them, to which Portaria nº 21/2015 - SMT added a fourteenth: 01 Av. Independência between Rua 68 and Av.
Alfredo Nasser (Rua 74), Setor Central; 02 Av. Alfredo Nasser (Rua 74), Setor Central; 03 Av. Paranaíba between Av.
Alfredo Nasser and Av. Anhanguera, Setor Central; 04 Alameda dos Buritis; 05 Av. Assis Chateaubriand between Av.
Dona Gercina Borges Teixeira and Rua 94, Setor Sul; 06 Rua 94, Setor Sul; 07 Rua 10, Setor Central and Setor Sul; 08 Av. Universitária, Setor Leste Universitário; 09 Praça Universitária, Setor Leste Universitário; 10 Rua 261, Setor Leste Universitário; 11 Alameda Botafogo, Setor Central; 12 Avenida Paranaíba between Avenida Anhanguera and Rua 68, Setor Central; 13 Rua 68, Setor Central; 14 Av. E, Jardim Goiás.
The list is complete on its own terms, which separates Goiânia from Manaus: the authority does not say "and ten more roads" and then fall silent. What it does not say is whether the bounding roads are themselves inside the zone, and the instrument's wording — limited BY these roads — leaves that open, so a lorry on Alameda dos Buritis at 10:00 should treat itself as inside.
Anexo II is a set of maps, and they are images inside the gazette PDF with no text and no coordinates, so the polygon that would settle the question cannot be extracted.
On the ground the perimeter is small and central: the six Anexo I names that are unique in this city were read from OpenStreetMap on 14 September 2026 and all of them lie within 3.71 km of the city anchor — Avenida Universitária 0.46–2.42 km, Praça Universitária 0.87–1.32, Avenida Assis Chateaubriand 0.72–2.74, Avenida Paranaíba 0.94–1.55, Alameda Botafogo 0.79–2.90 and Rua 261 1.54–3.71.
The other eight were deliberately not used to place anything, because Goiânia numbers its streets and the bare names collide: "Rua 10" alone matched 109 separate ways spanning out to 28 km, in sectors the publisher never mentions.
Secretaria Municipal de Trânsito, Transportes e Mobilidade (SMT), Prefeitura de Goiânia — Portaria nº 21/2015 - SMT, signed 13 March 2015 by the Secretary, José Geraldo Freire, and published in the Diário Oficial do Município nº 6.045 of 18 March 2015. It is the only amendment to the zone's boundary: it adds item 14, Av. E in Jardim Goiás, to the Anexo I list of roads that bound the Zona de Restrição de Tráfego I, and it changes nothing else. The url watched here is the municipality's SILEG index of that edition; the gazette itself is a 2.02 MB PDF at https://www.goiania.go.gov.br/Download/legislacao/diariooficial/2015/do_20150318_000006045.pdf
There is no emission standard to meet. The zone sorts vehicles by gross weight and by length and by nothing else: the thresholds in force are 8.30 tonnes of Peso Bruto Total and 8.0 metres, and no Euro class, PROCONVE phase, fuel type or registration year appears anywhere in the three instruments that make up this rule. A new electric lorry of 12 tonnes is as restricted as a twenty-year-old diesel one.
Not applicable, for the same reason as the petrol standard: fuel is never mentioned. What Goiânia does add, and what most of the Brazilian entries in this corpus do not, is a trade test alongside the vehicle test — article 7 exempts by what the lorry is doing rather than by what it is, so a crane lorry and a removal van get 08:00 to 16:00 while an identical vehicle carrying general freight gets nothing.
The publisher has not stated an amount. Article 8 of Portaria nº 224/2011 - AMT says only that a breach "acarretará as sanções previstas no Artigo 187 do Código de Trânsito Brasileiro" — it names the federal article and stops, and neither of the two later portarias touches it.
That is the D-053 case rather than the D-053 exception: São Paulo, Salvador, Recife and Manaus are priced in this corpus because those authorities printed the infraction class, the sum and the licence points themselves, in their own sentence, and Goiânia has printed none of the three. Taking the figure out of the national fine table would be our arithmetic dressed as the publisher's, so the amount is null.
A driver should assume there is a real fine, and that it is the one article 187 of the CTB carries.
Agência Municipal de Trânsito, Transportes e Mobilidade (AMT), Prefeitura de Goiânia — Portaria nº 224/2011 - AMT, articles 5, 6, 7 and 8 and the sole paragraph of article 3, which between them carry the Peso Bruto Total definition, the two exemption lists, the discretionary authorisation and the federal article a breach is sent to. Read through the municipality's own SILEG index of Diário Oficial do Município nº 5.214 of 21 October 2011
Agência Municipal de Trânsito, Transportes e Mobilidade (AMT), Prefeitura de Goiânia — Portaria nº 224/2011 - AMT, published in the Diário Oficial do Município nº 5.214 of 21 October 2011, pages 9–12, and signed on 18 October 2011 by the AMT's president, Miguel Tiago da Silva. The founding instrument of the scheme and the primary source for this record: article 1 subjects heavy vehicles and lorries in the zone to special rules, article 2 defines the zone by the roads in Anexo I and the maps in Anexo II, article 3 carries the timetable table and defines "Toneladas" as Peso Bruto Total, article 4 adds the separate city-wide car-carrier ban, article 5 allows a discretionary special authorisation, articles 6 and 7 list the exemptions by trade, article 8 sends a breach to article 187 of the federal code, and article 10 brings the whole thing into force on 20 October 2011 "conforme Lei 9028/11". ⚠️ That citation is the first half of a contradiction the publisher has never resolved: this portaria calls its parent law "Lei 9028/11", the 2015 amendment calls it "Lei nº 9.028/2001", and the mayor's 2025 veto message calls it "a Lei nº 9.028, de 2011". Two of the three say 2011 and the record follows them, but the disagreement is recorded rather than tidied away (V-013). The url here is the municipality's own SILEG index, which returns the gazette's extracted text as JSON and can therefore be monitored; the edition itself is a 3.77 MB PDF at https://www.goiania.go.gov.br/Download/legislacao/diariooficial/2011/do_20111021_000005214.pdf and is unwatchable under D-077
Secretaria Municipal de Trânsito, Transportes e Mobilidade (SMT), Prefeitura de Goiânia — Portaria nº 70/2013 - SMT, published in the Diário Oficial do Município nº 5.697 of 14 October 2013 and signed on 10 October 2013 by the Secretary, Patricia Pereira Veras. The amendment that produced the rule in force today: article 1 replaces article 3 of the 2011 portaria with a one-row table reading "Acima de 8,30 Toneladas · Acima de 8,0 metros · 7h às 19h" for Monday to Friday, raising the weight line from 7.0 tonnes and leaving the length and the window alone, and article 2 replaces article 4 by adding "acima de 14 (catorze) metros" to the car-carrier ban. Article 3 delays both by 180 days from publication, which by our arithmetic and not the publisher's is 12 April 2014. ⚠️ The 8,30 figure itself cannot be watched: SILEG serves the gazette as PDF-extracted text inside JSON, every table cell arrives on its own line, and each line break arrives as the two characters that JSON writes a newline with — so the longest run of that table without a break is a single cell. The watched strings below anchor the portaria, its target and its commencement instead, and the figure is quoted in the hours field with this source named
Secretaria Municipal de Trânsito, Transportes e Mobilidade (SMT), Prefeitura de Goiânia — Portaria nº 21/2015 - SMT, published in the Diário Oficial do Município nº 6.045 of 18 March 2015 and signed on 13 March 2015 by the Secretary, José Geraldo Freire. The only change ever made to the zone's boundary: it adds item 14, "Av. E, Jardim Goiás", to the Anexo I list. It is also the source of the second half of the parent-law contradiction, describing Portaria nº 224/2011 as the one "que regulamenta a Lei nº 9.028/2001" where the 2011 portaria and the 2025 veto both say 2011
Gabinete do Prefeito, Prefeitura de Goiânia — Mensagem de Veto Integral ao Autógrafo de Lei nº 134 de 2025, signed by the mayor Sandro Mabel on 15 July 2025 and published in the Diário Oficial do Município nº 8.578 of the same day. This is the currency evidence, and it is the strongest kind this record could have short of a fine register: the head of the municipal executive vetoing a bill because it "extrapola" the rules already in force, and naming them — "a Lei nº 9.028, de 2011, e as Portarias nº 224, de 2011, nº 70, de 2013, e nº 21, de 2015, da Secretaria de Engenharia de Trânsito, que tratam da restrição de tráfego de veículos pesados e disciplinam horários, rotas e zonas de limitação". That is exactly the chain this record encodes, listed as complete, described in the present tense, and relied on to strike down a law. It also settles the parent-law year at 2011 and names the current authority. Behind it stand five further dated statements of the same kind, weaker but consistent: the municipal regulations of 22 April 2013, 5 August 2014, 9 July 2019 and twice in 2021 all list "tráfego de caminhões em área de restrição de tráfego" among the traffic authority's standing enforcement duties. No revocation appears in any of them
Prefeitura de Goiânia — SILEG, the municipality's own full-text index of the Diário Oficial, asked for the newest edition that mentions a "Restrição de Tráfego" at all. This source is watched for a different reason from the other four: they are archival and cannot change, so watching them proves only that the channel still answers. This one is a change detector. The index holds 33,228 documents against a control word returning 0, and the phrase appears in exactly 11 of them, the newest being the edition of 27 May 2026. If Goiânia publishes another gazette touching the traffic restriction zone — an amendment, a revocation, a new boundary road — this count and this identifier both move, the record is withdrawn from the index, and a cycle goes and reads it. That is the event this record is actually exposed to, and nothing on a static page could catch it
Secretaria Municipal de Engenharia de Trânsito, Prefeitura de Goiânia — the secretariat's own standing page, which states who holds this power now. The three instruments behind this record were issued by two bodies that no longer exist under those names: the Agência Municipal de Trânsito, Transportes e Mobilidade in 2011 and the Secretaria Municipal de Trânsito, Transportes e Mobilidade in 2013 and 2015. Lei Complementar nº 335 of 1 January 2021, as amended by Lei Complementar nº 382 of 2024, makes the Secretaria Municipal de Engenharia de Trânsito the municipal executive traffic body, and article 45 gives it the enforcement and penalty powers this scheme runs on. It is also the only page in the municipality's estate that carries the scheme's authority at all: the city's news index answers 0 for the phrase "Zona de Restrição de Tráfego" against a control of 0, so nothing outside the gazette describes this rule to a driver
Next scheduled re-check: 2026-12-13.
A city can run more than one scheme, and they do not always answer the same question.