THE Metropolitan Manila Development Authority yesterday said it would continue informing the public of the ban on electric vehicles on national roads for another week after the expiration last May 18 of the grace period ordered by Malacanang.
This means the agency will not apprehend and issue citation tickets and fines to violators of the ban.
“The grace period expired last May 18 but upon consultations, we decided to continue asking them to leave the main roadways for more than one week. We will conduct educational campaigns in that period to inform the public,” Artes said in a press briefing at the agency’s main office in Pasig City.
He said after one week, the MMDA will start apprehending violators of the ban, and issue them citation tickets and the corresponding fine.
The MMDA chief said even during the grace period that started last April 18, President Marcos Jr. did not bar the agency from accosting violators of the ban.
What the President’s order barred, Artes said, was the issuance of citation tickets, imposition of fine and impounding the electric vehicles.
The ban on tricycles, push carts, pedicabs, kuligligs, e-bikes, e-trikes, and light e-vehicles (EVs) on 20 national roads in Metro Manila took effect last April 15.
