Toll board sees normal traffic after hiccups on 1st day of RFID payments

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MANILA, Philippines—The Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) is expecting road conditions to return to normal in the coming days after traffic jams greeted motorists on Tuesday (Dec. 1), the deadline for full cashless toll.

Long queues at toll plazas formed as system glitches surfaced and thousands of motorists adjusted to RFID payments combined with a rush of people returning to Metro Manila after a holiday-extended weekend.

One driver told the Inquirer she was stuck in crawling traffic for two hours on a five-kilometer stretch on the North Luzon Expressway (NLEx) on Tuesday night.

Assessing the first day of the full shift to RFID payments, TRB executive director Abraham Sales called …

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