Post by Neil Allan C. de Leon on Jan 28, 2008 23:40:54 GMT -5
Las Piñas apprehends 9,345 traffic Violators
August 3, 2007
A total of 9,345 traffic violators in Las Piñas City were arrested in a span of five months since January of this year as a result of the city government’s massive campaign against undisciplined drivers and pedestrians.
Las Piñas Traffic Office records showed that the 9,345 apprehended from January to June this year were penalized for traffic obstruction, jaywalking, disregarding traffic control signs/signals, reckless driving, trip cutting and no-seat belt violation.
The campaign, called “Kaayusan sa Kalsada at Bangketa,” is designed to ease the heavy traffic in Zapote-Alabang road (the city’s major thoroughfare) and clear the sidewalks of illegal vendors and structures.
Mayor Vergel “Nene” Aguilar also warned the traffic enforcers and volunteers not to engage in any form of extortion and other unlawful activities or they will be dismissed from service and face criminal and administrative cases.
The campaign also involves removal of illegal and ambulant vendors in all sidewalks, towing of illegally parked vehicles, construction of traffic signs, strict enforcement of the loading/unloading areas for public utility vehicles. Tricycle or any three-wheeler vehicles are also banned along the main roads.
Undisciplined motorists who used to counter-flow traffic along Zapote-Alabang Road will be constrained to their proper driving lanes as kilometers of immovable concrete median have been installed along the city’s main thoroughfare.
In line with the campaign, the mayor directed Traffic Enforcement Unit chief P/Insp. Juanito Rafael to go after the traffic violators and undisciplined motorists and spare no one who would obstruct the implementation of road rules.
Aguilar pointed out that aside from the increasing volume of vehicles traversing Zapote-Alabang Road, the main cause of traffic are undisciplined drivers of public utility vehicles who recklessly swerve from one lane to another to outrun other PUVs and get more passengers, which congest traffic and even result to fatal accidents. (END)
August 3, 2007
A total of 9,345 traffic violators in Las Piñas City were arrested in a span of five months since January of this year as a result of the city government’s massive campaign against undisciplined drivers and pedestrians.
Las Piñas Traffic Office records showed that the 9,345 apprehended from January to June this year were penalized for traffic obstruction, jaywalking, disregarding traffic control signs/signals, reckless driving, trip cutting and no-seat belt violation.
The campaign, called “Kaayusan sa Kalsada at Bangketa,” is designed to ease the heavy traffic in Zapote-Alabang road (the city’s major thoroughfare) and clear the sidewalks of illegal vendors and structures.
Mayor Vergel “Nene” Aguilar also warned the traffic enforcers and volunteers not to engage in any form of extortion and other unlawful activities or they will be dismissed from service and face criminal and administrative cases.
The campaign also involves removal of illegal and ambulant vendors in all sidewalks, towing of illegally parked vehicles, construction of traffic signs, strict enforcement of the loading/unloading areas for public utility vehicles. Tricycle or any three-wheeler vehicles are also banned along the main roads.
Undisciplined motorists who used to counter-flow traffic along Zapote-Alabang Road will be constrained to their proper driving lanes as kilometers of immovable concrete median have been installed along the city’s main thoroughfare.
In line with the campaign, the mayor directed Traffic Enforcement Unit chief P/Insp. Juanito Rafael to go after the traffic violators and undisciplined motorists and spare no one who would obstruct the implementation of road rules.
Aguilar pointed out that aside from the increasing volume of vehicles traversing Zapote-Alabang Road, the main cause of traffic are undisciplined drivers of public utility vehicles who recklessly swerve from one lane to another to outrun other PUVs and get more passengers, which congest traffic and even result to fatal accidents. (END)