Enforcers of the Manila Traffic and Parking Bureau apprehend e-bike drivers passing through Rizal Avenue and Recto Avenue in Metro Manila on April 15, 2024. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News/File

E-Bike Ban on National Roads begin

Adrian Ayalin

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/172499271592620240415-mmda-e-bike-policy-MD-.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Enforcers of the Manila Traffic and Parking Bureau apprehend e-bike drivers passing through Rizal Avenue and Recto Avenue in Metro Manila on April 15, 2024. Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News/File "/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(51, 51, 51);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Enforcers of the Manila Traffic and Parking Bureau apprehend e-bike drivers passing through Rizal Avenue and Recto Avenue in Metro Manila on April 15, 2024.<em> Mark Demayo, ABS-CBN News/File</em></span><em> </em></span></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">MANILA – The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority and the Land Transportation Office have asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the petitions of various groups and individuals against the No-Contact Apprehension Policy (NCAP) in order to deter increasing traffic violations.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In their reply submitted by the Office of the Solicitor General to the high court on August 12, 2024, the agencies noted noted that since the issuance of the temporary restraining order against the NCAP on August 30, 2022, surveillance cameras recorded 257,000 traffic violations. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Solicitor General further cited 32,000 traffic violations recorded in May 2023 compared to 9,500 average traffic violations per month before the NCAP was suspended.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Clearly, the NCAP acts as an effective deterrent against traffic violation,” Solicitor General Menardo Guevarra said in the reply submitted to the Supreme Court. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/08/17/22/lawyer-challenges-manilas-no-contact-apprehension-program-before-sc">Fined P20-K, lawyer challenges Manila’s &#x27;no-contact apprehension&#x27; program before SC</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Solicitor General also noted that the MMDA encountered difficulty in enforcing the exclusivity of the EDSA bus lane without CCTV-assisted apprehension, which also supposedly led to some accidents.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/06/14/23/mmda-warns-motorists-anew-stay-out-of-edsa-bus-lane">MMDA warns motorists anew: Stay out of EDSA bus lane</a></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It was also noted that the MMDA and local government unit respondents could not reasonably apprehend flagrant offenders of traffic rules amid a supposed increase in the number of accidents in Metro Manila in the last quarter of 2022.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“Verily, until this honorable court makes a definite and categorical declaration on the validity of NCAP ordinances, they enjoy the presumption of validity and has the force and effect of law,” Guevarra said.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/06/16/23/metro-manila-council-ncap-helps-deter-traffic-violations">Metro Manila Council: NCAP helps deter traffic violations</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:#000000;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Solicitor General also reiterated that the NCAP ordinances do not violate the constitutional right to privacy of motorists and the information necessary to carry out the functions of public authority is outside the scope of the Data Privacy Act of 2012.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br/></div><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/5/6/mmda-nagbabala-vs-text-scam-ukol-sa-no-contact-apprehension-1749">MMDA nagbabala vs text scam ukol sa &#x27;no contact apprehension&#x27;</a></div><div><iframe width="1100" height="619" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kwzTD_lYxGA" title="SC TRO vs no-contact apprehension policy &#x27;unfortunate&#x27; 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<p>The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority and the Land Transportation Office have asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the petitions against the No-Contact Apprehension Policy in order to deter increasing traffic violations.</p>

The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority and the Land Transportation Office have asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the petitions against the No-Contact Apprehension Policy in order to deter increasing traffic violations.

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Supreme Court asked to lift stop order on no contact apprehension as traffic violations increase

Supreme Court asked to lift stop order on no contact apprehension as traffic violations increase

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