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Thursday, June 15, 2006
Give your report on violations: Traffic agency told
By Lory Ann B. Bilbao
THE City Council wants the Traffic Management and Engineering Unit (TMEU) to submit to it its collection report on traffic violations made this year.
City Councilor Erwin Plagata, chairman of the committee on police, suggested the same to the council saying that the traffic agency, like other departments of the City Government does not pass an updated collection report to the body despite its obligation to do so.
Plagata said that there were 6,775 drivers who reportedly violated the traffic rules from January to the present month but it was not implied as to how many were fined and those who weren’t. Thus, there was no clear picture of the collections from the same.
Those who were fined were issued of receipts and will have to surrender their driving license to the apprehending traffic personnel. The same violators will then have to claim their licenses for P40.
Plagata revealed that the TMEU has collected more or less P3 million last year; P2 million in 2004 and more or less a million in 2003.
He expressed doubt on the numbers seeing that the city has far too many public utility vehicles than that of Cebu, which collects P20 to P30 million annually out of the same violations.
He also cued that there might be monkey business in the streets between the apprehending officers and the drivers as alleged by some of the latter, that the SP might know if only it digs deeper into this and if it simply require the TMEU to make a collection report.
The SP resolved that the TMEU then should be required to pass a collection report and update the same.
(June 15, 2006 issue)
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