‘Don’t impose added burden on motorists’, Sen. Poe urges DOTr
“Motorists should not be made to further suffer in their effort to comply with the government regulation to shift to a cashless toll system,” Poe, chairperson of the Senate committee on public services, said in a statement.
The DOTr in August issued Department Order No. 2020-012, which requires cashless or contactless payments on expressways to prevent the COVID-19 transmission. Motorists have to install radio frequency identification stickers onto their vehicles before December 1. She cited reports coming from motorists taking the Cavite Expressway or Cavitex, who supposedly have been required to keep a minimum balance of P100 on their RFID accounts. She said the system does not allow debiting from the account even if the toll they need to pay is much less.
She also noted that getting the RFIDs should not anymore be made complicated, saying it should be as swift as refilling fuel.