Tag Archives: EPASS

What will happen to EPASS on April 1, 2016?

THE SIGNS are literally everywhere where EPASS operates. In the tollbooths throughout the stretch of the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) and Skyway bright red banners and posters announce that effective April 1, 2016 that toll road system will no longer … Continue reading

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What good is SLEX’s RFID if you can’t reload it like EPASS?

IT HAS been almost four months since we opened discussions on the order of San Miguel Corporation to stop issuing EPASS tags for its South Luzon Expressway (SLEX)/ Skyway toll roads despite the thousands of pending orders. In response to … Continue reading

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The EPASS, RFID and Edmundo Reyes of Toll Regulatory Board

JUST in case you missed it, I blogged twice recently on the EPASS (or perhaps the lack of it) electronic toll collection system of the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) and the new Radio Frequency Identification system (RFID) being slowly implemented by … Continue reading

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Bring Back EPASS Now! Calling Edmundo Reyes, TRB

IS THE Toll Regulatory Board (TRB) run by another do-nothing politician appointed by the President in the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC)? This is the question that kept turning in my mind as I drove into the C5 entry … Continue reading

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