LTO, city government traffic moratorium on

ILOILO CITY – The city government here and the Land Transportation Office (LTO) jointly agreed a moratorium on confiscation of driver’s license of traffic violators pending the final memorandum of agreement (MOA) set to be finalized within this week.

City Mayor Jerry P. Treñas said the agreement was arrived at during a meeting of officials of the LTO, Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the city government today, February 16 at the city mayor’s office to thresh out difficulties on the implementation of traffic rules by city traffic aides and LTO agents.

Treñas said that representatives sent by DOTC ASec Arturo Lomibao who is currently LTO chief and DILG lawyers from the central office in Manila arrived in this city to participate in the meeting aimed to solve the traffic impasse between the city and LTO regional office.

Lomibao is reportedly willing to fly to Iloilo tomorrow, February 17 to sign the MOA but the agreement will still have to be approved by the city council in authorizing the city mayor to sign it.

Treñas said the city council will have to deliberate on the terms of the MOA on Wednesday, February 18 during its regular session and he is also going to Manila on Thursday, February 19 to bring the MOA for Lomibao if the LTO chief could not come to Iloilo. Read more…