MMDA ABUSE OFFENSES

MMDA abuses so many Traffic Violation

If any of these abuses seem familiar to you, you should call either the MMDA hotline (136) or call the METRO BASE at 0920-938-9861 or 0920-938-9875 and ask for an Inspectorate. They will send inspectors to the place where these MMDA officers are extorting, even while you are arguing out of your apprehension.

1. MMDA officers are not allowed to group together in order to apprehend.

They are not even allowed to stand together in groups of 2 or more. The only time they are allowed to work together is for special operations (probably when they apprehend groups of buses for smoke belching);

2. Swerving IS NOT a traffic violation. Moving one lane to the left or right is not swerving, no matter where on the road you do it. And it is even less of a violation when you do it with a signal. Swerving is defined as shifting 2 or more lanes very quickly. So you can argue your way out of this, and call the Metro Base for help;

3. Sadly, using the yellow lane is a traffic violation and will get you a ticket. However, buses are really not allowed to go out of the yellowlane, so if you see selective apprehension of private cars only, you may complain;

4. MMDA has confirmed that your license MAY NOT BE CONFISCATED at a traffic apprehension. The only time they can do so is if you are part of an accident, or it is your third violation and you have not settled your fines yet. They are only allowed to give you a ticket, which you can contest. He recommends actually receiving the ticket in some instances, so that you can report the officer who did it.

Also, you are free to ask any of these officers for their mission order, which is written by their supervisor. If they apprehend you for a violation that is not in their mission order for the day, you can report them and they will receive disciplinary action.

Now you know a bunch, you may now go out and drive safely

thank to arnold

MMDA TO USE MOBILE TICKETING

Traffic enforcers of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will soon start using portable ticket machines (PTM) to simplify the issuance of citation ticket as well as expedite the verification of driver’s license of erring motorists.

MMDA General Manager Robert Nacianceno said the use of the PTM is part of the agency’s effort to upgrade its technology and automate the issuance of citation tickets to traffic violators.

“We are now training our traffic enforcers on the proper operation of these machines, which can bring a lot of advantages for us not only in terms of efficient enforcement of traffic rules and regulation but also in instilling discipline among our motorists,” Nacianceno said.

The device, which costs P80,000 each, will replace the old-fashioned traffic violation booklets manually filled up by traffic enforcers. It works like a cash register where the enforcer would key in the type of violation committed for the machine to turn out the appropriate ticket.

In using the mobile ticketing system, traffic enforcers will only need to swipe the driver's license to his portable ticket machine to know if the driver has previous unsettled violations.

“We will know for sure if the driver is using a fake driver’s license or fake traffic ticket,” he said, noting that spurious tickets, known in the streets as “talahib,” are still being used today by some unscrupulous public utility drivers.

The PTMs will be linked to the MMDA Metrobase so that proper identification of traffic violators will be easier.

“If he is found to be a recidivist violator, then we can confiscate his driver’s license and have it revoked at once and at the same time impound his vehicle,” he said, citing Republic Act 7924 that authorizes the agency to confiscate and revoke driver’s license.

Nacienceno added that PTMs cannot be used by corrupt traffic enforcers since the machine automatically records the transaction for the agency’s counterchecking.

"What we want to do here is to minimize contact between the traffic enforcer and the motorist, and prevent them from making any kind of under-the-table transaction,” Nacianceno said.