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Duterte also hits NLEX for glitches in system, not doing trial run (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to fire officials of the Toll Regulatory Board for the traffic fiasco caused by the RFID mess in tollways that started with Duterhe implementation of cashless transactions on Dec. 1. “You know, I have to weed out incompetence. Listen very carefully to all and sundry, I do not want you … becoming a deadwood. If […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6WsBiu_O3A&pbjreload=101 (Eagle News) — Valenzuela City mayor Rex Gatchalian has lifted the suspension that his city government had imposed on the business permit of the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) Corporation, but with conditions that it would prevent a repeat of the previous traffic gridlock due to problems with the RFID implementation. Gatchalian said that the conditions are necessary so that NLEX would realize that the complaints of the riding public and motorists should not be […]
(Eagle News) — The Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) said that over 90 percent of toll transactions in the country are through radio frequency identification (RFID) sticker use as a result of the implementation of the cashless transaction since Dec. 1, 2020. Still, the Senate is set to probe how this cashless toll transactions are being implemented amid reported problems that had resulted in traffic gridlocks that had affected motorists, according to Senator Grace Poe. […]
(Eagle News) — Some 2 percent of RFID stickers installed on vehicles are defective, the North Luzon Expressway Corp. said on Tuesday, Dec. 8. But NLEX Corp. senior vice president Romulo Quimbo Jr. said in a television interview that the company has already identified which ones these were, and has already reached out to the specific vehicle owners. “Many of the motorists who have already changed the stickers have already successfully traversed the system,” he […]
https://youtu.be/yQVOd_ebSWI (Eagle News) — House Speaker Lord Allan Jay Velasco urged the Department of Transportation to extend the period for the installation of radio-frequency identification (RFID) stickers to March next year, instead of January 11. In a statement, Velasco said that “at the rate things are going” it would be difficult to have all 6.1 million registered vehicles in Metro Manila, Central Luzon and Calabarzon to be provided with RFID stickers by Jan. 11, 2021 […]
(Eagle News)–Tollway operators are ready for cashless transactions on Nov. 2 but have extended the installation of RFID stickers beyond that date, the Department of Transportation said. In a statement, the DOTr citing Toll Regulatory Board Executive Director Abraham Sales said all expressway operators would make the shift to contactless transactions in compliance with the Department of Transportation’s Department Order No. 2020-012 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Sales noted, however, that motorists without RFID stickers will […]
