A new crackdown looms on smoke belching as the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) relaunches its anti-smoke belching campaign on Friday.
The MMDA will initially assign six personnel to take charge of the anti-smoke belching campaign’s roadside apprehension.
"No vehicle will be spared, regardless if they are government-owned. We will issue notice of violations and citation tickets to all violators. This way, the level of maintenance of vehicles in our country will improve," MMDA chairman Oscar Inocentes said on theMMDA website.
According to the MMDA, it will initially concentrate its operation along Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue (EDSA), within the vicinity of the MMDA office in Makati City.
License plates of vehicles that fail the smoke density test will be confiscated and LTO citation tickets will be issued.
First-time violators will have to pay a fine of P1,000, while second-time offenders face a fine of P3,000.
Offenders will have to pay P5,000 for the third offense, while succeeding offenses will led to the cancellation of registration for private vehicles and of franchises for public utility vehicles.
Inocentes said he will first inspect and test selected MMDA vehicles to ensure their roadworthiness and environmental compliance.
"We will start in our own backyard to show the public that the MMDA is serious in implementing the law and in protecting our environment against pollution," Inocentes said.
He said citation tickets will be issued to MMDA vehicles which will fail the smoke density test.
The anti-smoke belching unit will be under the direct supervision of the Environmental Protection Office headed by Rolando Macalinao.
Republic Act 7924, the law which created the MMDA, mandates the authority to promote health and sanitation, urban protection and pollution control which includes the formulation and implementation of policies, rules and regulations, programs and projects for the promotion and safeguarding of the health and sanitation of the region and for the enhancement of ecological balance and the prevention, control and abatement of environmental pollution. - RSJ/LBG, GMANews.TV
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/185908/mmda-revives-anti-smoke-belching-campaign
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