{"id":273166,"date":"2020-10-27T23:43:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T03:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=273166"},"modified":"2020-10-27T23:43:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T03:43:57","slug":"mandatory-cashless-toll-payments-moved-to-dec-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/10\/27\/mandatory-cashless-toll-payments-moved-to-dec-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory cashless toll payments moved to Dec. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_273168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-273168\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/nlexsctex.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-273168\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/nlexsctex.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/nlexsctex.png 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/nlexsctex-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-273168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CASHLESS TOLLWAYS. A portion of the North Luzon Expressway \u2013 Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway. The Department of Transportation on Wednesday pushed the start of the mandatory cashless transaction in all tollways to December 1 to give motorists more time to acquire RFID stickers. (Contributed photo via PNA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Motorists have been given more time to have radio-frequency identification (RFID) stickers installed on their vehicles after the Department of Transportation (DOTr) pushed the start of the mandatory cashless transaction in all toll expressways from November 2 to December 1.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cSa ngayon, pwede pang magbayad ng<\/em>\u00a0cash but after that,\u00a0<em>patatabihin sila paglagpas ng<\/em>\u00a0toll\u00a0<em>at i-<\/em>install-<em>an sila ng<\/em>\u00a0RFID (For now, they can still pay the toll using cash but after that, they will be asked to park on the side of the road and have an RFID installed on their vehicle),\u201d DOTr Assistant Secretary Goddes Hope Libiran said in a message on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The extension is to prevent the long queues currently experienced at toll roads \u201cin the rush to get RFID stickers,\u201d Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) Executive Director Abraham Sales said in a media bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>Sales, however, noted that the deadline would no longer be extended beyond December 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretary (Arthur) Tugade allowed the extension in order to give motorists, especially infrequent toll road users, more time to comply with the department order,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists who enter toll expressways with no RFID by December 1 and beyond \u201cwill be apprehended and issued a citation ticket,\u201d the TRB said.<\/p>\n<p>DOTr Assistant Secretary Mark Steven Pastor asked motorists to make use of the extended deadline and have RFIDs installed on their vehicles as early as they can.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIwasan natin \u2018yung kung kailan isang linggo na lang, saka tayo magmamadaling magpunta sa<\/em>\u00a0installation sites\u00a0<em>para magpakabit ng<\/em>\u00a0RFID. Now, we are extending the deadline to give further consideration. Let us use the extension wisely,\u201d Pastor said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the TRB assured that the Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. and the San Miguel Corp. \u2013 the two operators and maintenance providers of the country\u2019s toll expressways \u2013 are equipped and ready to implement mandatory cashless transactions and have extended the installation of RFID stickers beyond November 2.<\/p>\n<p>The DOTr earlier issued Department Order 2020-012, directing the implementation of cashless toll collections at all expressways and major toll roads to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 in road transportation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Motorists have been given more time to have radio-frequency identification (RFID) stickers installed on their vehicles after the Department &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":273168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-raymond-carl-dela-cruz","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273170,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273166\/revisions\/273170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}