The Min­istry of Trans­port has pub­lished an ad that it is the law to have your ve­hi­cle in­spect­ed and that fail­ure to do so would cost $5,000.I in­spect­ed my car last year and they did not have stick­ers avail­able, so I walked away with a sheet of pa­per. This ad will on­ly cause chaos and a mad rush to in­spec­tion sta­tions and even­tu­al­ly (if there is ad­e­quate stock of stick­ers in the first place) stick­ers will run out.

Why not plan the no­tice and say reg­is­tra­tion num­bers from PAA to PBA should be in­spect­ed in the next month, then PBB to PBZ in the next two months and so on un­til all ve­hi­cles have had the chance to get their ve­hi­cles in good work­ing con­di­tion and then the usu­al road blocks and con­se­quent traf­fic jams can start? To just put this ad is ut­ter­ly ir­re­spon­si­ble. Not to men­tion the penal­ty cost. That is more than most peo­ple's month­ly pen­sions.

Get re­al please, PP Gov­ern­ment. We know you on­ly have two more years to prove that you can make a dif­fer­ence but geez, put your brain in gear be­fore open­ing your mouths. Do you need to sud­den­ly fill the Trea­sury by charg­ing cit­i­zens $5,000?

C M Thom­son

Ari­ma