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Although cash lanes continue to operate, cashless electronic toll collection for motorists using both the Skyway and the South Luzon Expressway surged 85 per cent, San Miguel Corporation (SMC) today (February 16, 2021) reported.

Cashless toll payment, or “full Radio Frequency Identification (RFID in the expressways, after whatever refinement will be mandated, is just the first stage”, according to Rodrigo E. Franco, president and CEO of the Metro Pacific Tollways Corporation (MPTC).

Over 90 percent of transactions in the country’s toll roads are now via radio frequency identification (RFID) stickers, after transport authorities enforced cashless transactions since the month began, the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) reported.

San Miguel Corporation (SMC) today (Dec. 1) reported “generally smooth” traffic along its expressways and toll plazas on the first morning of their 100% cashless toll collection.

San Miguel Corporation (SMC) president Ramon S. Ang appealed to the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to extend tomorrow’s (December 1) deadline for cashless transactions till February for the sake of motorists scrambling to get Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) stickers.

Transport authorities can no longer postpone the contactless toll payment scheme beyond next month, December 1, 2020, although the tollway systems of expressway companies are not yet interoperable.

In response to the clamor of motorists, who have yet to install Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) stickers on their vehicles, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) today moved back the deadline for cashless collections on toll roads from November 2 to December 1, 2020.