MMDA: License seizure may be allowed anew

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) is considering allowing the confiscation of driver’s licenses of delinquent motorists who failed to pay their fines for two consecutive traffic violations, MMDA Chair Romando Artes said on Thursday.

The violations will reflect on the handheld ticketing device, according to the MMDA chief.

“They can pay immediately so that [the license] will not be confiscated because when the LGU (local government unit) or the MMDA confiscate, we will forward the license to the [Land Transportation Office],” Artes said.

He said the MMDA was eyeing to roll out the handheld devices for the single ticketing system in seven local governments next month.

Artes said traffic enforcers would undergo training on June 27, and by the first or second week of July, 10 devices each would be issued in Quezon City, Caloocan, San Juan, Parañaque, Valenzuela, Muntinlupa, and Pateros. —JANE BAUTISTA

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