Finally, authorities from the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) are implementing the “no-plate-no-travel” policy across the country starting April 1.
The policy is pitifully belated, some PR hungry wise guys already jumped the gun when this was reported for implementation last year. Now, if this is supposed to be a cure to the country’s traffic maladies, it is also supposed to traffic something into somewhere.
After all those years, we delight at the pronouncement. Delight is exactly the term.
No, it is not because it should lessen accidents as the move clearly intends to wipe out illegal and unregistered cars off the roads.
This should significantly enhance the flow of traffic because the big boys who do not mind dis-obeying rules if only to show how they rule the streets, are now to be flagged down, fined and their big toys face impounding.
We delight because this would be perfect chance for the government to finally cash in on the new standardized car plates, which would soon be sported in all vehicles. Good it it’s the government.
Without the use of technology or massive manpower augmentation in the streets, imagine how the LTO could handle that?
Now this itself, again presents another equally enriching opportunity for wise guys in uniform who make the streets their ATM dispensers.
Talk of mulcting traffic lieutenants, or hulidaps and goons on the streets, talk of fixers at LTO clearly fixing themselves, among other things.
What the DOTC is doing is classic “bringing out the big guns and hoping that everyone would just lie there and die there.”
From the start, this has the makings of a lemon car.
This bland pronouncement has just effectively shown ‘buti na lang may ganito, kay sa, sa wala” mentality.
If this is what we get from a government that is expected to govern, there is this dire fixing that must be done. When implemented in April, isn’t this any foolishy at all?
