00:00The Toll Regulatory Board's target is to implement a unified wallet in all expressways this year.
00:06But before that, they were questioned in the Senate because of the new toll hike this August.
00:12The Toll Regulatory Board approved it even though the contactless system in some expressways is not in order.
00:18If this is wrong, traffic will be even more congested on the roads.
00:23TRB explained in the first news of Dano Tingcunco.
00:30Following the increase in tolls this June,
00:33the North Luzon Expressway has increased its tolls again this August.
00:37But before that, they were questioned in the Senate because of the new toll hike this August.
00:42The Toll Regulatory Board approved it even though the contactless system in some expressways is not in order.
00:49Mr. Chairman, I took the liberty of again going through the toll booth.
00:57The RFID doesn't work anymore.
01:00And there's a manual to click the card to enter.
01:06So in other words, if this happens, the traffic will be even more congested.
01:11The Toll Regulatory Board explained that the increased tolls that were not allowed were saved.
01:17The board approved the petition because
01:21first of all, we have a contract called the Supplemental Toll Operation Agreement.
01:27Our concessionaire has stated that we will have this for every two years.
01:34There's no problem if you increase the tolls.
01:36But they were stuck in traffic because the RFID doesn't work.
01:41It has to be justified.
01:43You should not have allowed the increase.
01:45When do you plan to increase it again?
01:47Most probably in August, this August.
01:50Don't do it yet.
01:51Don't do it yet.
01:52There's no increase yet.
01:53I will make it happen.
01:54Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation explained that the operator of NLEX, SCTEX, CALAX and CAVITEX
02:01is already in the process of replacing the first-generation RFID readers that had issues.
02:06There were also misplaced or broken RFID stickers.
02:10The issue here is if the sticker is already used or misplaced, it will not be readable.
02:21That's why there's a manual.
02:24And that's why the program, as far as we're concerned, is a massive replacement.
02:30The target is to implement a unified wallet or one RFID sticker on all expressways this year.
02:37We require toll operators to remove all the obstacles so that in three to seven minutes,
02:42when you load, you can get real-time charging.
02:47That's what's happening.
02:49The motorist will load and it will not be propagated at the lane level and it will be caught.
