Senate Majority Leader Francis Tolentino welcomed the decision of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to extend the deadline on the prohibition against the use of improvised and temporary plates for motor vehicle owners.
“I welcome LTO’s decision to push back its deadline to restrict the use of temporary and improvised license plates – originally set on September 1 to December 31 this year,” said Tolentino.
The Senate Majority Leader said the ban on temporary plates “lacks logic and is unfair and unjust to ordinary riders and motorists.”
The motoring public cannot be faulted for the lack of supply and the delays in the issuance of official license plates, he pointed out.
This, according to him, is a responsibility that falls squarely on the LTO.
Tolentino earlier called out the LTO Central Visayas, which warned that it would arrest and penalize temporary and improvised license plate users beginning this month.
Instead, the LTO should “decisively address the license plates backlog,” which reportedly currently stands at nine million, he said.IMT
