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People outraged after new payment scheme caused ‘EDSA-like’ traffic on Skyway

If you travel from South to North or vice-versa everyday via the Skyway, then you’d know they tried to implement a new payment scheme earlier this week and it led to an EDSA-like traffic jam.

Under the new payment scheme, motorists need to stop at two toll booths: the payment booth and the new booth where they need to surrender their payment slips. The Skyway management stated that the new scheme was implemented to facilitate faster toll collection and handle increased traffic volume.  This wasn’t what happened, though, and people took to social media to vent their anger.

See some of the tweets below:

Even Rep. Ruffy Biazon of Muntinlupa City said that the new system “actually made things worse” and that the experience was like “being thrown into the lower basement of hell.”

The Congressman immediately wrote to Mr. Manuel Bonoan, the President and CEO of the Skyway O&M Corporation to request a dialogue regarding the new toll collection system that was implemented.

After four days of public outrage and severe traffic jams, the corporation was forced to return to their old “pay as you enter” scheme and issued the following statement:

“As always, we continue to adjust to our motorists’ needs and that includes exploring better ways to implement this transition to a new toll collection system in the future. We still believe the new system can benefit a greater number of people over the long term,” they stated.

DOTr Sec. Arthur Tugade has also ordered the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) to scrap the new payment scheme and said that no new scheme may be put in place until the public can be assured that it will be implemented smoothly.

Traffic soon returned to normal after the new scheme was scrapped, with motorists telling the corporation: “don’t fix something that is not broken.”

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