ANGELES CITY- In a bid for discipline, Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan has been rounding local thoroughfares to personally clamp down on anti-littering and traffic violators, an effort that moved this city’s traffic force to do the same and earn the local government P600,000 in traffic fines so far this year.
“I suppose that if our fines reach P1 million, we would have instilled an acceptable degree of discipline in our local roads already,” Pamintuan said in a press briefing here.
Pamintuan has been making the rounds of local roads at least twice daily and actually confronts traffic and anti-littering violators himself. “One time I was driving around and someone in a vehicle ahead started throwing pieces of paper.
I overtook and blocked the vehicle to find out that a woman in the passenger seat had been tearing up a letter and throwing one piece after another. I imposed a P500 fine immediately,” he related.
Pamintuan also announced the appointment of Bong Mariano as the city’s “traffi c czar” as he noted the need to upgrade the skills of traffic enforcers in the city.
“We examined the tickets being issued by our enforcers and found out rather silly ways that they record traffic violation incidents,” he noted.
He noted that one enforcer drew a smiley’s face with one blind eye to indicate that the violator had only one headlight functioning, while another drew a frowning smiley’s face to indicate a combative violator.
