DELINQUENT public transportation providers are asked to settle their unpaid tickets before the full force of the legislation is applied on February 1.
This time, the request comes from the leader of Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS), Egeton Newman, who has changed his stance from calling for a payment plan to pay off the outstanding tickets by January 31 while also making it clear that the industry is
ready to go to court.
This week,
National Security Minister Dr. Horace Chang sent a message that the government is still adamant that unpaid penalties must be paid or delinquents would suffer the consequences.
In response, Newman informed operators, owners, and other public transport association heads in a private social media group that although the association will consult with its lawyers, operators should seek guidance from their heads of association in the meantime.
“We are all in difficulties right now, owners and drivers alike. Owners are in problem because they will run out of drivers if drivers don’t pay the tickets, and drivers are in trouble because they have unpaid tickets. As transportation providers, we are declaring that we intend to challenge it in court “Newman, who had earlier in the week threatened a strike by bus drivers, made this statement.
On Tuesday, Dr. Chang cautioned that the new digitized ticketing system will make it impossible for frequent traffic violators to hide their tracks. He declared that the
police will find every delinquent and issue warrants for each unpaid ticket.
Newman stated to coworkers, “Our unpaid fines must be paid by January 31. The new system will go into effect on February 1. The minister’s and the Cabinet’s interest is in the ticket payments. You won’t get demerit points or have your license suspended. Putting everything else on hold, settle your traffic fine. I learned something positive from Minister Chang’s presentation: if you wish, you may go to court with a lawyer “He said that the government’s focus was on its money, not the problems that the industry was facing.
Christopher Williams, the Director of Training and Development for TODSS, urged managers of transportation associations and companies to begin compiling records of ticket payments as well as other pertinent data, including records of the routes taken when tickets are issued, the primary locations where they are ticketed, and the types of offenses for which tickets are issued.
“I’m coming at this from a fair standpoint.
Take photographs or make a route recording at all the places where there are no white lines and just yellow lines, such as
Constant Spring.
Present that as proof to the mayor, the National Works Agency, and perhaps the court.
The receipt should be photographed.
Make a receipts file on your smartphone and save the photographs there for later use.
Who is the policeman issuing the most citations? For what
purposes are the tickets being issued? Without independent study, all
evidence becomes anecdotal and won’t hold up in court.
Association managers need to start gathering information. When you pay, you save tickets rather than receipts.
Williams informed the operators, “Evidence is what is held up in court even if the system is defective.
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