PRESIDENT DUTERTE WARNS OF TRB REVAMP FOLLOWING RFID GLITCH

PRESIDENT DUTERTE WARNS OF TRB

REVAMP FOLLOWING RFID GLITCH President Rodrigo Roa communication that puwet na. Dumating na Duterte has warned enables data transfer sa Maynila.” officials of the Toll between RF tags and The Chief Executive Regulatory Board (TRB) antenna. asked Transportation that he would carry out Toll regulators should Secretary Arthur Tugade a revamp if there will be have conducted a trial to call the attention of another glitch following run first and anticipated the TRB to address the a public backlash on possible problems that problem. the implementation of the radio-frequency identification (RFID) system. “Ito may system but actually it’s flawed, and the people behind this are really incompetent,” President Duterte said in a televised public might occur, according to the President. The issuance of RFID tags in the tollways has created monstrous traffic jams, exacerbating the misery of the commuters and motorists, he said. “And on the day The DOTr has accelerated the adoption of cashless toll payment system after 270 employees at the tollgates contracted COVID-19, Tugade said. “Kasi it was not only our desire to have a address Wednesday of the implementation, good flow of traffic in the night, expressing dismay anak ka ng p***. Saan tollways, it was our desire over the chaotic ka makakita doon pa also to minimize the implementation of the ilagay ‘yung mga sticker spread of COVID. Iyon po RFID system. while the traffic --- the ang nagtulak sa amin,” RFID system is an queuing was almost also he told President Duterte. ID system using wireless exponential? Hanggang PND