Effective on Thursday, 15 July 2004, MMDA will implement a new traffic violation ticketing system called Metropolitan Traffic Ticket (MTT) wherein an MMDA traffic enforcer (in light blue shirts and black pants) should issue an MTT only for a traffic violation without confiscating the driver's license. The MTT should be paid at MMDA or a Metrobank branch within seven (7) days. An unpaid or overdue MTT will be cause for rejection of a driver's license when renewal is applied for at LTO every three (3) years. Appeals for rejected driver's license renewals would have to be taken up in an LTO traffic court. Drivers who have been issued MTTs should therefore keep the copy of the MTT when marked as paid at least until the next renewal of the driver's license.

Effective on Friday, 16 July 2004, Makati City will implement its new Traffic Ordinance which is basically the same set of traffic rules as that of MMDA and LTO but with higher fines for traffic violations. This ordinance will be implemented by enforcers (in yellow shirts and black pants) of the Makati Public Safety Authority (MAPSA). Unlike the MMDA traffic violations ticketing system, MAPSA will issue its own traffic ticket and confiscate the driver's license. The ticket will allow a driver to drive for seven (7) days during which time he must pay the fine and retrieve his driver's license at the MAPSA headquarters in Makati City (Makati City Fire Station, Ayala Av corner Sen. Gil J. Puyat Av).

It is theoretically possible for a driver to be unfortunate enough to be apprehended both by an MMDA traffic enforcer if he commits a traffic violation outside of Makati City and by a MAPSA traffic enforcer if he commits another violation again in Makati City.

Drive carefully.