New Trinidad Traffic Fines + Demerit + Fixed Penalty System

[nick639v2]

Tint exempt forms have now started to roll out, may the odds be in your favour!

when you say roll out you mean they now start to process? i send in mine since earlier in the year and have not heard anything from them since.

Well I got the call to pickup.

Applied last year.. then they called me to check And test it in person if it's already applied.. verification done to all papers and well 10 months after, approved.

[eliteauto]

Last night they had a team checking the red light cams by the Waterfront complex (Hyatt) seems they were making adjustments and doing some training, quite a large group in hi-viz vests, maybe the rollout of those is coming soon

[hustla_ambition101]

Last night they had a team checking the red light cams by the Waterfront complex (Hyatt) seems they were making adjustments and doing some training, quite a large group in hi-viz vests, maybe the rollout of those is coming soon

Plenty money losing from not using the speed cameras and not implementing the red light camera system. Hopefully they install more red light cameras and bring the system on stream by 2022, too many people breaking red lights long after they change

[Dizzy28]

They were there around lunchtime today. Just one guy in a red shirt fiddling in the box by Radisson's wall.

Last night they had a team checking the red light cams by the Waterfront complex (Hyatt) seems they were making adjustments and doing some training, quite a large group in hi-viz vests, maybe the rollout of those is coming soon

[dogg]

[redmanjp]

^ was now goin and post dat!

[hover11]

That demerit system still valid , thought it currently up for review in the courts...

[bluefete]

Make it make sense for me please.

Is the "Current Demerit Points" what it is going to be now?

Did they remove things that were violations before and are non-punishable by demerit points now?

That looks like it is encouraging lawbreakers on the roads.

But with Faris as AG, that is par for the course.

[pugboy]

what about blown brake light bulb?

[ProtonPowder]

Make it make sense for me please.

Is the "Current Demerit Points" what it is going to be now?

Did they remove things that were violations before and are non-punishable by demerit points now?

That looks like it is encouraging lawbreakers on the roads.

But with Faris as AG, that is par for the course.

The fines will remain but the points wont.

[redmanjp]

the last one they actually introducing about parking in a stand is for PH drivers?

[ProtonPowder]

It looks so

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the last one they actually introducing about parking in a stand is for PH drivers?

Or people that just park in taxi stands to go about their business, atm,etc.

[zoom rader]

Vehicles without two headlamps?

Some bikes only have one

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Vehicles without two headlamps?

Some bikes only have one

Depends on if its LHD or RHD

[bluefete]

They had no right to remove ANY of the demerit points for those offenses even if the fines remain.

Lawless government encouraging lawlessness.

[zoom rader]

They had no right to remove ANY of the demerit points for those offenses even if the fines remain.

Lawless government encouraging lawlessness.

A large number of red government people complained to their Red MPs, that's why it was changed

[ProtonPowder]

They had no right to remove ANY of the demerit points for those offenses even if the fines remain.

Lawless government encouraging lawlessness.

Leaving demerit points on these kinds of offenses leads to this kind of situation.
-Rack up points on relatively harmless offenses
-Remember points only expire 2 years after not receiving any more
-Lots of people end up losing their licenses
-They continue driving
-Car accidents happen, people with 3rd party insurance are SOL other than going after the at fault party personally

People driving with suspended or revoked licenses creates big problems, it is already a huge problem in parts of the US. If people lose their license willy nilly over number plate bulbs, it is not a good thing.

[redmanjp]

i think its 2 years after u get that demerit point. not 2 years after not getting any more points.

[ProtonPowder]

i think its 2 years after u get that demerit point. not 2 years after not getting any more points.

here you go, end of page 37 at section 88O
http://www.ttparliament.org/legislations/a2017-09g.pdf

[daring dragoon]

make sure an always have a copy of that fixed penalty schedule in you car with the MVRT act. them police dont know the law and if you show it to them and they get confused cause they only have 3 cxc they will just tell you go ahead cause they cant understand what they read.

them law makers also will get chupid when you show them the MVRT cause they bandit that thief the car can get bail to go out and rape, murder and thief a next car but you law abiding citizen will get a fixed penalty ticket and demerit points cause your headlight blow or wiper bad or tail light crack or broken. bunch of arsehole in my opinion.

[daring dragoon]

They had no right to remove ANY of the demerit points for those offenses even if the fines remain.

Lawless government encouraging lawlessness.

Leaving demerit points on these kinds of offenses leads to this kind of situation.
-Rack up points on relatively harmless offenses
-Remember points only expire 2 years after not receiving any more
-Lots of people end up losing their licenses
-They continue driving
-Car accidents happen, people with 3rd party insurance are SOL other than going after the at fault party personally

People driving with suspended or revoked licenses creates big problems, it is already a huge problem in parts of the US. If people lose their license willy nilly over number plate bulbs, it is not a good thing.

and murders , bandits and rapist getting bail and out to do more crime.

[abducted]

According to a senior source at the Licensing Office, the 61-year-old driver, who is permitted to drive heavy and light motor vehicles, received numerous tickets since the demerit system came into effect in May 2020.

Last Thursday, however, the 61-year-old Sangre Chiquito resident reported to the Caroni Licensing Division Office.

Guardian Media called the businessman’s phone number on several occasions to find out how he was still able to drive despite having 37 demerit points on his license—nearly double the 20 points required for a two-year license suspension.

The tickets included driving on the Priority Bus Route without a permit—which results in six demerit points, as well as speeding tickets—an offence which carries four demerit points.

Despite reporting to the licensing authority, however, the driver will not be suspended from driving at least not yet.

According to the demerit point system, an accused driver must first receive a letter from the authority, via TTPost, notifying them that he has a certain quantity of demerit points.

Then the driver will have 14 days to query or give cause for their alleged offences.

The businessman only received his letter after reporting to the Licensing Division Office last Thursday.

Three previous attempts by the division to serve him the letter failed after a TTPost postal worker was unable to deliver the notification successfully.

“Some persons attempt to evade the process. So if TTPost comes to deliver a letter, because you have to sign for it, they may not take the letter. However, TTPost records that in their system.

“Sometimes, if the person is a businessman, they will tell their employees to not accept the letter from TTPost when the postal worker seeks to get the letter signed,” a senior licensing authority source said.

“The accused in this case lives at the exact address that we had for him. So somebody there would have evaded the correspondence…He is claiming that it was one of his workmen. When he came in today, we served him with his first letter, and the process will start from there.”

Normally, according to licensing division sources, the authority will attempt to locate drivers evading their driver’s license disqualification notification letter by sending officers to find them on the roads.

However, in some cases, as with the 61-year-old businessman, they said, they are unable to find them as easily as they would find a PH driver on the Bus Route, for example.

Twice annually, the authority also publishes a list of drivers who can’t be located in the major newspapers.

https://guardian.co.tt/news/businessman ... 09e5d48b41

[matr1x]

This system was broken the day it was conceived

[hover11]

Wonder if it was Kwame from laventille if the same olive branch would have been extended to him

[Chimera]

What olive branch? There's a process for them to follow and they are doing it.

You suppose to know about how people can easily duck ttpost service/notices.

[Les Bain]

Is it a traditional businessman or media code for gyangsta boss?

[ProtonPowder]

I get tired of saying it, but every law passed under Ferris Al Wheelie was some of the most incompetent legislation ever put forward.

I thought this part of the motor vehicles and road traffic act was the exception, but oh well.

[hover11]

Is it a traditional businessman or media code for gyangsta boss?

Community leader

[VII]

He better cool down his pace, sounding like a good candidate to wipe out one day.. this man needs to be saved from himself..