Articles about Rfid

The RFID saga continues

The entire RFID mess was clearly one of the country's biggest motoring issues in 2020. It feels like it's been one blunder after the other during this transition to 100% cashless transactions on all expressways.For months, motorists and tollway

See how the world of motoring has fared in the first few days of 2021

Have you gotten one yet?

Those of you who still haven't managed to get your hands on an Autosweep RFID tag will want to pay attention.SMC Tollways has announced that Autosweep RFID installation will be allowed for all car brands at select BMW dealerships until

In case you haven’t gotten your RFIDs yet

San Miguel Corporation (SMC) has had its hands full lately. After partially opening the Skyway Stage 3 to the public, the company has now announced that it is setting up to shift to 100% cashless transactions along all its tollways come January

What a year

Who would have thought that 2020 would be the year we'd all stay at home? Nonetheless, it was far from being an uneventful year. We still saw a lot of fun and interesting images during the COVID-19 pandemic.We already

What if?

Depending on whether the glass in your head is half full or half empty, and whether or not one is referring to situations real or imagined, the mere mention of the words "what if" can generate any of a variety of responses-

2020 continues to throw us curveballs

It’s been a very, very long year

You've probably heard this dozens of times before already, but we'll say it again: It's been a long year. A lot of things happened throughout the course of 2020, from the beginning of January right until these last few

It’s going to take a while

Our country's shift to 100% cashless tollways is going anything but smoothly. We think the past few weeks have made this very, very apparent. A lot of kinks in the policy's implementation still need to be sorted out, and it

What’s your take on this?

With RFIDs still a hot topic these days, there's another related subject that's of particular interest to riders: toll fees.Right now, tollway-legal motorcycles (with engine displacements 400cc and above) are charged the same fees as light vehicles that

Uh-oh

Malacañang isn't happy with how the shift to cashless expressways is turning out so far.In a press conference held earlier today, December 17, presidential spokesperson Harry Roque relayed president Rodrigo Duterte's threat to sack officials of the Toll

42 have been opened in the past two weeks

The San Miguel Corporation (SMC) is cranking up RFID operations leading up to 2021. Just over the past two weeks, the company has opened 42 new installation stations in addition to the 53 it had as of November 2020.The current total

The two parties finally come to an agreement

The Valenzuela City local government and NLEX Corporation have finally come to an agreement regarding the latter's RFID woes and suspended business permit in the city.Earlier today, Valenzuela City announced that North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) tollbooth barriers within its jurisdiction

They’re mostly located right before or just after entering the expressway

Cash lanes are back on the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX), but that doesn't mean the shift to fully-cashless tollways won't push through. The reactivation of cash lanes is only an "interim measure," says NLEX Corporation, as it makes operational

Among other operational changes to be implemented in the coming days

It looks like NLEX Corporation is starting this week better than it did the last. We hope we don't jinx them by saying so.You can read about every problem the tollway operator has had to contend with the past few

NLEX Corporation requests for more time to study the system

It's been a week since Valenzuela City mayor Rex Gatchalian officially suspended NLEX Corporation's business permit in the city. Fortunately, the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) toll plazas in the area have since been (mostly) a sight for sore eyes-just

Drop by if you can

Still haven't managed to get your hands on an Autosweep RFID? If you live in San Juan City, then you're in luck.The local government has announced that it will be holding an Autosweep RFID installation activity at San Juan

Who else saw this coming?

That didn't take long. Barely two weeks into the implementation of fully-cashless payments on the country's major tollways, cash lanes are set to make a comeback on the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX).There's no shortage of reasons to

A welcome sight

Earlier this week, Valenzuela City followed through on its threat to suspend the NLEX Corporation's business permit if the expressway operator could not immediately address issues hounding its implementation of 100% RFID transactions. Since then, the parts of North Luzon Expressway (

Ramon Ang addresses your concerns

Despite continuous dissemination of information from the Department of Transportation (DOTr) and tollway operators, there still seems to plenty of question marks surrounding the shift to cashless tollway transactions.Surprised by the confusion? We aren't. Remember, this is a massive change