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Door-to-door exercise to collect traffic fines
29 Jan 2014 at 05:13hrs | Views
THE Bulawayo city Council will soon conduct a door-to-door debt-collection exercise to account for about 16,000 traffic tickets worth more than $240,000.
Traffic tickets have been accumulating since dollarisation in 2009, with some individual motorists accruing up to $600 in unpaid fines. Fines vary from $5 to $36.
The Chronicle quoted the council's senior public relations officer, Nesisa Mpofu, saying tighter new by-laws will see public transporters who continued using illegal points to pick and drop passengers losing their licences.
"The security and traffic section of the council together with ZRP (Zimbabwe Republic Police) will soon have a door-to-door exercise targeting defaulters," Mpofu told Chronicle.
"Kombi operators who are obscuring their number plates in a bid to avoid tickets will be accounted for and perpetrators taken to court. Those operating at illegal pick up points will have their Operator's Licenses revoked in terms of Chapter 29:15 of the Urban Councils Act."
She said recent technological advancements by council would make the exercise possible. Council traffic officers are now able to check in an instant whether a vehicle has outstanding tickets by punching its number plates into a laptop linked to the local authority's database.
Spot checks were carried out on Monday up to Wednesday and will continue routinely.
Traffic tickets have been accumulating since dollarisation in 2009, with some individual motorists accruing up to $600 in unpaid fines. Fines vary from $5 to $36.
The Chronicle quoted the council's senior public relations officer, Nesisa Mpofu, saying tighter new by-laws will see public transporters who continued using illegal points to pick and drop passengers losing their licences.
"Kombi operators who are obscuring their number plates in a bid to avoid tickets will be accounted for and perpetrators taken to court. Those operating at illegal pick up points will have their Operator's Licenses revoked in terms of Chapter 29:15 of the Urban Councils Act."
She said recent technological advancements by council would make the exercise possible. Council traffic officers are now able to check in an instant whether a vehicle has outstanding tickets by punching its number plates into a laptop linked to the local authority's database.
Spot checks were carried out on Monday up to Wednesday and will continue routinely.
Source - chronicle
