Don't Surrender License!!

**alnr** · June 14th, 2004 10:59 AM

i just got this email from my GF, can anyone verify this one?

thanks!

> Importance: High
>
>
> Don't surrender license, drivers told
>
> Drivers who violate traffic rules will no longer be required to
> surrender
> their licenses by the end of the month, the Metropolitan Manila
> Development
> Authority said on Saturday.
> Instead, drivers are free to go as soon as they are issued traffic
> violation receipts.
> The new system is part of the MMDA's "no contact apprehension" program
> designed to enforce the traffic rules without obstructing the flow of
> traffic.
> Executive Director Angelito Vergel De dios, chief of the MMDA-Traffic
> Operation Center (TOC) said the new system would be implemented before
> the
> end of the month.
> Under the scheme all drivers both private and public that committed a
> traffic offence will just be issued a TVR without confiscating their
> driver's license and they will just pay the corresponding fines in any
> Metrobank branches nationwide.
> MMDA acting chairman Cesar Lacuna appealed to all drivers who have been
> issued traffic citation receipts to settle their unpaid fines to avoid
> further inconvenience.
> Lacuna said if the traffic offender failed to pay the corresponding
> fines
> on the date specified in their TVRs they will have to pay additional
> fines
> plus their vehicles will not be allowed by the Land Transportation to be
> registered.
> --Jefferson Antiporda