{"id":5424,"date":"2016-03-31T13:43:40","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T05:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2016-03-31T13:43:40","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T05:43:40","slug":"mmda-to-revive-no-contact-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/03\/31\/mmda-to-revive-no-contact-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"MMDA to revive &#8216;no-contact&#8217; policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">This April 15, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will be reviving its \u201cNo-Contact Policy\u201d which will make use of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras to record violations of motorists around Metro Manila.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5425 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/03\/traffic-edsa-manila.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>NO CONTACT POLICY. This policy will be revived to catch motorists violating traffic rules in Manila roads. Photo by Aaron Favila, grabbed from philstar.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">According to Inquirer report, No-Contact Policy Head Ronnie Rivera said that they are already testing and fine-tuning the quality of feed in the cameras. They are also checking if the cameras can see the plate numbers of motorists on the road from afar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">One hundred cameras are said to be needed for this policy, which will apprehend motorists who will commit violations such as \u201cencroaching on yellow boxes, illegally-parked vehicles, reckless driving, loading and unloading in prohibited areas, beating the red light, over-speeding, and other moving violations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">For those who will be caught violating the traffic rules, they will be issued notices and within 3 days of the supposed violation, they will be given 7 days to either pay the fines or contest the violation with the MMDA\u2019s traffic adjudication division.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">If violators fail to settle the fines, the plate number will be given to the Land Transportation Office (LTO) with recommendation that \u201cregistration shall not be renewed\u201d until settled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">An advantage of this No-Contact Policy is to lessen opportunities for bribery and corruption. A 15-man team stationed at MMDA Metrobase in Orense St., Makati City will be monitoring the footages on the CCTV cameras.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/776406\/mmda-all-set-for-no-contact-policy\" target=\"_blank\">Inquirer.net<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rappler.com\/nation\/122656-mmda-no-contact-apprehension-policy-traffic-violations\" target=\"_blank\">Rappler<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This April 15, the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will be reviving its \u201cNo-Contact Policy\u201d which will make use of Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras to record violations of motorists around Metro Manila. \u00a0 NO CONTACT POLICY. This policy will be revived to catch motorists violating traffic rules in Manila roads. Photo by Aaron Favila, grabbed from philstar.com \u00a0 According to Inquirer report, No-Contact Policy Head Ronnie Rivera said that they are already testing and fine-tuning the quality of feed in the cameras. They are also checking if the cameras can see the plate numbers of motorists on the road from afar. One hundred cameras are said to be needed for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/03\/traffic-edsa-manila-e1534234948484.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5427,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions\/5427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}