An albatross called ‘Noli’
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| Louie Logarta |
One of the New Year resolutions of Virginia Torres is to implement Republic Act (RA) 10054 (or the Motorcycle Helmet Act) on a nationwide basis in a bid to cut down on the increasing number of fatalities being reported to authorities.
Torres, who is the present chief of the Land Transportation Office (LTO), said she would be starting her campaign against violators of RA 10054 here in Metro Manila where she can rely on hundreds of policemen as well as various other traffic enforcers to strictly implement said law that has largely been honored by riders more in the breach than anything else.
In a recent address before the Philippine Motorcycle Federation, Ms. Torres said LTO estimates place the number of unregistered motorcycles in the country at over 1 million, which is why the number of accidents involving the two-wheeled vehicles most surely will rise drastically in the coming years if law enforcement agents are lax in implementing the Helmet Act.
But in several provinces in Northern Mindanao, particularly Cagayan de Oro City, LTO officials have found themselves hamstrung in this regard because local government functionaries aren’t keen in putting some bite to the Helmet law as, they claim, this would simply add to the deterioration of the peace and order situation prevailing..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110116com4.html
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