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Traffic violations in city soar

Metro traffic authorities are not letting up on their campaign against ill-disciplined motorists and drivers and have apprehended a total of 5,095 licenses for various offenses in the month of August.

In a latest report reaching Mayor Jerry P. Treñas, the Traffic Management and Engineering Unit (TMEU) license in-charge Rafaelito Jamolo said the apprehensions were made from the period August 1 to 31, 2005, and brought in a total of P289,730.00 in fines to the city coffers. In comparison, the January 2001 arrests yielded only P100,730.00 in penalties, the TMEU reported.

The TMEU report likewise mentioned that the most number of apprehensions were done last August 30, 2005 with 401 apprehended drivers.

Jamolo also stated that to date, July has registered the most number of apprehensions with 5,518 drivers fined and P301,890.00 collected.

The August figures brought the number of apprehensions since January 2005 to 38,218 which resulted in fines collected by the city amounting to a whopping P2,115,760.00.

Meanwhile, the Mayor congratulated the TMEU for their unceasing campaign against wayward road users and said that the only way to instill discipline is to make these users realize apprehensions will continually be made without exception. (Eireen Manikan/PIO)