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$5,000 charge
...for using cellphones while driving
By by Anna Ramdass anna.ramdass@trinidadexpress.com
Story Created: Dec 30, 2010 at 11:44 PM ECT
(Story Updated: Dec 30, 2010 at 11:44 PM ECT )
From tomorrow, persons who use their cellphones while driving will be charged a heavy $5,000 fine, Government Minister Jack Warner said at yesterday's post-Cabinet press conference at the Diplomatic Centre in St Ann's.
Said Warner, "January 1, Saturday, when you are driving you cannot speak on your cellphones. I want to remind them because they will charge $5,000."
He added that from January 1, all 2011 Priority Bus Route passes will be in effect for bona fide users only.
Warner further stated that the public's use of the PBR during fixed hours will continue from January 1 for six months into the new year.
Questioned about the high incidence of road traffic accidents, Warner disclosed that he has requested a meeting with the National Security Minister and head of the Traffic Branch.
He said the road laws must be enforced and added that more police patrols are needed on the roads, noting that 350 traffic wardens will be hired by March next year.
Warner added that cable barriers to prevent vehicles from crossing the medians and colliding with vehicles heading in the other direction on the nation's roadways will be installed by the end of June 2011. He said the plan was to install them by the end of January, but his technical staff told him it will be completed by the end of June.
Warner said at the end of the day, despite all of Government's efforts, drivers need to educate themselves and observe the road rules and be more responsible.
However, a parliamentary source yesterday told the Express that the legislation in fact comes into effect three months after it was tabled (publication). This would mean the law will not in fact take effect until February.
pioneer wrote:Bizzare wrote:Pioneer when you die I wonder if there will be a "R.I.P Pioneer" thread created by those who know you.... ya think??...... seeing that you show no remorse and sheit
that relates to this thread how?
.... you know what I mean
pioneer wrote:awww guys
i just choked my chicken inside
pioneer wrote:awww guys
i just choked my chicken inside
DTAC wrote:A man can't dream in Trinidad? They need a lot of police on bikes going around and jacking up people and issuing fine on the spot for this thing to work. I hate to say it but most police sitting in their air conditioned Hilux ain't going to get out into the hot sun to issue a ticket and most motorist bank on that.
If only we could clone that older fella that does be on the bike around Port of Spain. He'll pull you over because it look like you ain't brush your teeth for the morning!
Jack should announce a commission for tickets paid. It works for sales assistants. How long you have to stand up in Detour before someone comes to help you. If it wasn't for commission on sales, you'd grow roots!
Cellphone ban from Feb 18
Published: Fri, 2010-12-31 18:46
Raphael John-Lall
The ban on driving and talking on a cellphone is to take effect from tomorrow said Works and Transport Minister Jack Warner. However, Government sources told the T&T Guardian the ban would be effective from February 18, 2011. The spokesman said an order from the Government was put out on November 18 and required three months to become effective.
The source said Warner would clarify his error today at a press conference at the Ministry of Works, Port-of-Spain. Warner spoke of the ban at yesterday’s post-Cabinet press conference at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s. “From Saturday you can’t talk on your cellphones and drive or else you would be charged $5,000 for first charge,” Warner said.
Commenting on the significant number of traffic accidents over the Christmas season he said he had written to the Minister of National Security John Sandy to meet with the head of the Transport Division. He said at that meeting they hoped to find a solution to solve those problems. He said 350 traffic wardens would be hired and would be on the roads by the end of March. Warner said he hoped that also would alleviate the problem. He said the Government was doing its part but the public also must be responsible.
pioneer wrote:This law gonna be jus as ignored as the seatbelt law, and the law about having children in the front seat.
Hell i saw a man driving with what appeared to be a 6 month old on his lap...
Then again there's natural selection
Bizzare wrote:^^ Umm, so how does he police prove you were speeding, or had a toddler in the front seat, or driving recklessly, etc..... Yet tickets are still issued for these things right..... How would this be different?
Warner: Cellphone ban from February 2
Published: Sat, 2011-01-01 17:13
Works and Transport Minister Jack Warner said yesterday that the cellphone ban for drivers will be effective on February 2 this year. He said he made an error when he said last Thursday that the ban would become effective today.
He said the order was given on November 2 last year and under the law three months must elapse before the new regulations would take effect. He said, however, that motorists should use the one-month grace period to practise doing the right thing and use their hands-free devices instead.
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