{"id":273243,"date":"2020-10-28T07:46:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T11:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=273243"},"modified":"2020-10-28T07:46:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T11:46:22","slug":"motorists-without-rfid-in-tollways-to-get-citations-after-dec-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/10\/28\/motorists-without-rfid-in-tollways-to-get-citations-after-dec-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorists without RFID in tollways to get citations after Dec. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_273244\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-273244\" style=\"width: 1195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1195px-NLEx_Bocaue_Barrier.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-273244\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1195px-NLEx_Bocaue_Barrier.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1195\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1195px-NLEx_Bocaue_Barrier.jpg 1195w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1195px-NLEx_Bocaue_Barrier-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1195px-NLEx_Bocaue_Barrier-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/1195px-NLEx_Bocaue_Barrier-1024x617.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1195px) 100vw, 1195px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-273244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Bocaue Toll Plaza in Bulacan (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=47650773\">Photo by Adkranz at English Wikipedia, CC BY 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Motorists who fail to install a radio-frequency identification (RFID) sticker in their vehicles before entering an expressway or a toll road would be issued citations and fined after the December 1 deadline for mandatory cashless transactions in toll roads.<\/p>\n<p>In a message to reporters Wednesday, Department of Transportation (DOTr) Assistant Secretary Goddes Hope Libiran said the Land Transportation Office (LTO) is looking at issuing citations to these drivers based on Republic Act No. 4136 and DOTr Joint Administrative Order (JAO) No. 2014-01.<\/p>\n<p>Disobedient drivers, she said, can be issued a ticket for \u201cdisregarding traffic signs,\u201d a violation under JAO No. 2014-01 with a PHP1,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince<em>\u00a0may nakalagay na<\/em>\u00a0RFID-only lane<em>\u00a0pero pumasok pa rin \u2018yung sasakyan<\/em>\u00a0(Since there\u2019s a sign saying \u2018RFID-only\u2019 lane but the vehicle still tried to enter),\u201d Libiran said.<\/p>\n<p>She said an obstruction violation, with a corresponding PHP1,000 fine, can also be issued to a driver who attempts to enter a toll road since they will get stuck behind a toll barrier and obstruct the flow of traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Following the DOTr&#8217;s decision to push the deadline for mandatory cashless transactions in tollways to December 1, she said motorists have now been given four months to comply with the directive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Iniiwasan nga natin na<\/em>\u00a0last minute\u00a0<em>sila kukuha<\/em>\u00a0(We&#8217;re trying to discourage last-minute installations of RFIDs), that\u2019s why we extended for another month. Whatever the reason,\u00a0<em>kung wala silang<\/em>\u00a0(if they don&#8217;t have an) RFID by December 1, a citation ticket will be issued,&#8221; Libiran said.<\/p>\n<p>The full implementation of cashless transactions in toll roads was scheduled to take effect on November 2 but was reset to December 1.<\/p>\n<p>The DOTr said the deadline for the measure would no longer be extended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 Motorists who fail to install a radio-frequency identification (RFID) sticker in their vehicles before entering an expressway or a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":273244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273243","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\/273243","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=273243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273245,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273243\/revisions\/273245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}