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THE North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) Corp. backed down and is now seeking dialogue with the Valenzuela city government after Mayor Sherwin Gatchalian revoked the toll operator’s business permit following its failed radio frequency identification (RFID) system. ) and cashless pickup.
Informed of NLEX’s change of mind, Gatchalian said there was no problem because he was looking for the public interest and for the turnpike operator to fix everything else before he sped off his cashless transaction.
Gatchalian told The Manila Times that he scheduled a meeting with representatives from NLEX and the Manila Metropolitan Development Authority (MMDA) on Monday at 10:30 am in the Audiovisual Room, Legislative Building, 3rd Floor.
NLEX had threatened to go to court, but ended up asking the mayor, in a written request, his requirements for lifting the suspension order.
In his response to J. Luigi Bautista, President and CEO of NLEX, Gatchalian said that the city government wants clear and concrete solutions to the problems faced by thousands of motorists passing on the highway.
“This includes RFID stickers that wear off easily or immediately; sensors that cannot quickly read RFID tags; and accreditation of missing and / or inopportune charges, erroneous and / or delayed and / or massive collection of toll rates and display systems installed at toll gates that do not show the charge in real time, ”said Valenzuela’s executive director.
Noting that the above solutions must have clear and specific timelines, Gatchalian said the city government reserves the right to suspend its business permit again if the tollway operator does not provide copies of the monthly report and / or in case low rate or poor performance. .
“It is worth emphasizing that these long-term permanent solutions must be concrete, consistent and satisfactory for the city government and citizens, since we will verify their compliance after confirming compliance with all the previous points,” said the mayor in his letter.
He stressed that his response to Bautista would also serve as a severe warning to the toll road operator to strictly comply with the local executive order, “otherwise, we will revoke their commercial permits for all their toll plazas within our jurisdiction.”
Gatchalian personally delivered the suspension order at the Mindanao Avenue-Karuhatan toll, one of seven toll plazas within the city, after days of appeals and requests to repair faulty RFID systems, which have been creating monstrous traffic jams. , were ignored.
Instead of speaking to the city government, NLEX threatened to go to court over the suspension order that the mayor ignored.
“I’m not sure if this is a veiled threat, but the City Council does not do well to be threatened,” he said.
NLEX began installing RFID stickers after the government required toll operators to switch to contactless and cashless transactions as a way to prevent Covid-19 transmission.
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