MANILA – The Land Transportation Office (LTO) and the City of Carmona in Cavite signed an interconnectivity agreement on Monday to help enforce traffic laws by providing local traffic enforcers with necessary data.
In a statement on Monday, LTO chief Assistant Secretary Vigor Mendoza II said the data-sharing agreement would help compel motorists to follow traffic laws by ensuring that local traffic enforcers can hold them liable.
“We in the LTO cannot enforce road safety laws alone, especially outside Metro Manila. We need the LGUs (local government units) and like the city government of Carmona, it has been doing very well in assisting the national government in its goal of making the roads safe for everybody,” Mendoza said.
Erring motorists who escape traffic enforcers, he said, could later be identified if their license plate is obtained.
“The LGU of Carmona City could send us the information and in return, the LTO could issue a show cause order to the registered owners of vehicles that violated traffic rules and regulations,” he said.
The agreement, he added, is part of the advocacy of Transportation Secretary Jaime Bautista for road users’ safety and the LTO’s newly-launched “Stop Road Crash” program.
The memorandum of agreement and data sharing agreement for the LTO-LGU Interconnectivity Project was signed by Mendoza, Carmona City Mayor Dahlia Loyola, LTO-LGU Interconnectivity Project chairperson Noreen Bernadette San Luis-Lutey, and LTO Region IV-A Regional Director Elmer Decena in Carmona City. (PNA)