THE Roads and Traffic Administration (RTA) is proposing a P100-million budget for 2019 to purchase devices that will boost operations, among others.
Among the devices that the RTA promised to purchase next year are speed guns to measure the speed of moving vehicles and allow full implementation of the speed limit in the city.
The agency also intends to purchase breath analyzers to go after drunk drivers, a two-way radio base with antenna, among others, all worth a total of P1.8 million.
The proposed budget, amounting to P100,926,792, also includes the salary of RTA's employees amounting to P56 million as well as maintenance and other operational expenses amounting to P42 million.
The committee of the whole earlier deferred the RTA budget as it demanded that RTA executives show first the traffic management plan, otherwise known as the Local Public Transport Route Plan (LPTRP). It is a mandatory requirement of every local government unit per order issued by the Department of Transportation and Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG).
It will supposedly be the legislators' guide in crafting traffic-related policies.
But Councilor Edna Dahino, who chairs the committee of the whole said, the RTA has yet to present its traffic plan so far this week.
She said they are expecting to receive the plan on their meeting Thursday or on Friday, December 6 or 7.
"We will still check for other information that we are looking for, and we need to discuss it with the vice mayor who is still in Manila now," she added.
Councilor Teodulfo Lao Jr., meanwhile, said if the RTA fails to present the traffic plan, their P100-million proposed budget might be slashed.