Valenzuela City Mayor Rex Gatchalian’s Monday meeting with NLEX Corporation officials, set to discuss the “RFID fiasco,” ended up with the local chief executive’s challenge to the latter to immediately remove the barriers at its toll plazas.
“Maganda lahat point ni Mayor Rex…kasi this is not only the concern of Valenzuela eh. Kapag nag-traffic lahat, yang Mindanao [Avenue Toll Plaza], damay na yung Quezon City, damay ang Caloocan. At yan magbubuntis yan, kahit saan, damay ang Navotas ” he said. Therefore, NLEX’s business permit suspension, which was served last week due to the glitches on the company’s RFID system, remains.
For its part, NLEX Corporation—represented during the meeting by the company’s president J. Luigi Bautistas, vice president Glenn Campos, and assistant vice president for operations Maria Northwesterly Dionisio—vowed to improve its system by doing a “full API integration with various facilities by January 2021.
“Eh kung 2 percent lang pala ang hindi nababasa bakit ayaw na lang natin itaas [yung barrier?] , ” he asked NLEX officials as people watching their dialogue went eerily silent as the two sides exchanged arguments and ideas.