A total of 18 million summonses for traffic offences issued by the police, Road Transport Department (RTD) and Kuala Lumpur City Hall from 2000 to 2009 have yet to be settled, according to a joint media statement issued by the three authorities.
Of the figure, 15.6 million were summonses issued by the police, 1.8 million by City Hall and 608,070 by RTD.
RTD director-general Datuk Solah Mat Hassan, who provided copies of the statement to Pressmen here today, said between Feb 11 and 17, only 1,227 RTD summonses were settled while the numbers for the police and City Hall were 113,447 and 35, respectively.
He also reminded offenders not to wait for the last minute to settle their summonses in view of the Monday deadline.
"The question of places to pay does not arise as this can be done at post offices which numbers over 600 in the country. It is not only at RTD offices and police stations where summonses can be paid," he said.
Meanwhile, Solah said the new compound rates for settling traffic summonses would come into force on March 1 and would be uniformly applied by the three agencies.
The rates will apply for offences committed from March 1 whereas the old rates introduced in 2007 apply for summonses issued prior to March 1.
Solah said as per the amended Road Transport Act, traffic offenders who do not settle their summonses within the stipulated time would be blacklisted by RTD and the police. As for City Hall and other enforcement agencies involved, a blacklisting mechanism has yet to be fixed.
Prior to this, Transport Minister Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha had announced a new structure for paying fines for traffic summonses whereby offenders pay less the faster they pay up and stiffer fines for delayed payment.
