Execs can’t agree on law against drivers who urinate on roads

By NITZ ARANCON
Correspondent

THE city’s traffic czar and the head of the Roads and Traffic Administration (RTA) can’t agree on what law to use against drivers who relieve themselves on the road.

Task Force Hapsay Dalan chairman Jose Edgardo Uy said he could not think of any law to use against drivers who do this in full public view except the anti-littering law while RTA chief Nonito Oclarit said he was sure there was a city ordinance against the act but could not remember it.

This came after this paper published the photo of a public jeepney driver while he was passing water against one of his jeepney’s front tires in front of popular fastfood chains in a mall on the busy CM Recto Avenue during a rush hour.

“Kanang mangihi daplin sa dalan, hugaw-hugaw man gihapon kana, pwedi tingali nga ma-igo sila sa Anti-Littering Law,” said Uy.

Uy said the RTA could summon the jeepney operator in order to identify the driver.

“Mas maayo unta to kon nakuha ang plate number sa iyang jeep,” he said.

Despite the lack if not, the absence of a clear law that could be used against drivers who relieve themselves on the road, Uy said the city’s traffic law enforcers were directed to reprimand those who do this in public “kay law-ay kaayo labi na kon na-ay ilang mga babayi nga mga pasahero.”

Engr. Oclarit, for his part, said there is an existing city law against drivers who relieve themselves in public but he admitted that he could not remember the details.

“Come and go man gud ang implementation niana nga ordinansa, mao na nga  dili malikayan nga na-a gyud driver nga mangihi sa mga public places,” said Oclarit.