NLEX Corp. experiences ‘light traffic’ regardless of spike in figures

NLEX CORP. on Tuesday claimed the targeted visitors stream at its toll plazas has enhanced following it carried out some steps to assistance control the congestion.

In an e-mailed assertion, the tollway company noted that its typical each day website traffic experienced reached 323,000 from Dec. 18, 2020 to Jan. 4, 2021, or bigger by 3,000 vs . the traffic quantity it saw in the 1st two months of December.

“We are delighted that even with the modern spike in site visitors figures, we have not viewed our toll plazas receiving jampacked,” NLEX Corp. President and Normal Supervisor J. Luigi L. Bautista was quoted as declaring.

Mr. Bautista attributed the enhancement to the ongoing refinements the company is using.

To recall, the Valenzuela City government suspended the company permit of the tollway enterprise on Dec. 7 above the large targeted visitors induced by the implementation of its cashless toll payment procedure.

Valenzuela Town Mayor Rex T. Gatchalian lifted the suspension on Dec. 16 soon after equally events agreed to retain the toll boundaries up on all lanes for vehicles with RFID stickers.

The tollway business reported it is at present “working on some updates involving radio-frequency identification (RFID) antennas and account administration systems.”

It added that it has presently carried out some “enhancements in the RFID technique for more quickly reading, repositioning of RFID installation web-sites, and relocation of income and reloading lanes at the suitable aspect of the toll plazas for much better visitors circulation.”

Metro Pacific Tollways Corp.’s (MPTC) tollways, including NLEX, Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway, Cavite Expressway, and Cavite-Laguna Expressway, have so far put in a whole of 2,076,252 RFID stickers as of Jan. 10, the tollway organization said.

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