THE Commission on Audit (COA) cited this month the Land Transportation Office (LTO) for continuing to charge public fees for the use of its old information technology (IT) system, even though the agency has a new P8.227-billion Land Transportation Management System (LTMS) delivered by a German company. This is a troubling finding that the LTO needs to quickly resolve because having two IT systems running in parallel for an extended period speaks of inefficiency, the cost of which is ultimately borne by the transacting public.

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