LTO opens Bayambang satellite office
BAYAMBANG—The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has opened a satellite office here Monday, it’s seventh in the whole of Pangasinan.
The new office is actually a kiosk, which Lawyer Graciano Tobias, LTO chief in Region I, described as the biggest of its kind in the country.
Tobias said the establishment of the LTO office is a testament to the commitment of the LTO to bring its services closer to the public.
Seen to serve the population of Bayambang and other adjacent towns, the office will be open Tuesday to Thursday and can handle plain renewal of driver’s license, renewal of motor vehicle registration and encoding of alarms.
The inauguration was attended by Transportation and Communications Assistant Secretary Reynaldo Berroya, concurrently chief of the LTO, Gov. Amado Espino Jr., Mayor Ricardo Camacho, businessman Cezar Quiambao, president and chief executive officer of Stradcom, and other local government officials.
During the inauguration, Berroya announced the LTO’s recently launched “Balik Rehistro” program.
The program aims to encourage the owners of the more than 1.4 million vehicles that were not registered in 2006 alone to register with amnesty on late fees.
Of these unregistered vehicles, 880,000 are motorcycles and tricycles.
Berroya expressed hope that three to five years from now, all vehicles in the country will be properly registered.–CSR
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