A note from MMDA

The best of MMDA art, if you ask me.










You've got to hand it to MMDA, they have a sense of humor we can all relate to. Now all we need are honest traffic enforcers, who will actually give tickets instead of collecting bribes.
Here's a nifty scam used by a friend of mine in dealing with corrupt traffic enforcers. She keeps a stash of play money in her car. When she gets stopped for some kind of "traffic violation" and the cop asks for money, she slips him a fake 500-peso bill, which the cop doesn't check until she drives off into the night.



Here's an email that landed in my Inbox yesterday.

Dear Ms. Cecile,

Would like to let you know that our agency has released official FAQs that motorists could print out and use as guidance for traffic incidents and in dealing with erring enforcers.
You may find our FAQs on our website at:
http://www.mmda.gov.ph/faq.html

Of particular interest to you might be our FAQs entitled
10 Things That Drivers Should Know http://www.mmda.gov.ph/faq.html#page-1
Revised Number Coding (UVVRP) Rules http://www.mmda.gov.ph/faq.html#page-2
Traffic Fines and Penalties (Updated: Sept 2010) http://www.mmda.gov.ph/penalties.html

We hope you could help us get the official word out to your readers so that they may be better equipped to handle encounters with our enforcers.

Thank you.

- Atty. Yves P. Gonzalez
Spokesperson / I.T. Head
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority