“The NCAP is a trap that amounts to extortion, or highway robbery, and should be junked ASAP” With the Supreme Court decision to lift the suspension of
With the Supreme Court decision to lift the suspension of the No Contact Apprehension Policy and allow the Metro Manila Development Authority to implement it in EDSA and other major thoroughfares, expect owners of both public and private vehicles and their drivers to raise a howl over excessive fines and precious time wasted in filing appeals over baseless/wrong violations.
I received a Notice of Violation from the MTPB telling me that I had to pay P2,000 for disregarding lane markings and proceeding to cross to the left from Pedro Gil St. I argued that the MTPB should have a traffic enforcer assigned at that particular location to ensure that public utility vehicles waiting for passengers are not allowed to stay there at all since that is exclusively for the use of left-turning vehicles, according to the lane markings.
When I went to the MTPB office at the Manila City Hall to clarify the matter, there were many others waiting in line who were one in saying that NCAP was a big burden that needed to be reviewed, first because it imposed heavy fines without proving that indeed violations had been committed. But the traffic management system using CCTV cameras and advanced technology to record and process road violations without human intervention has been heavily criticized, with Albay Rep. Joey Salceda describing the scheme as “oppressive.”A taxi operator complained on TV news that she had been slapped with fines reaching P1 million for supposed traffic violations of her taxi drivers.
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