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For­mer min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port Ro­han Sinanan says the Gov­ern­ment’s new traf­fic fine regime is not fo­cused on chang­ing the cul­ture of dri­vers, warn­ing that the pol­i­cy pri­ori­tis­es rev­enue col­lec­tion over road safe­ty and is al­ready hav­ing dam­ag­ing so­cial and in­sti­tu­tion­al con­se­quences.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia on the im­pact of the re­cent­ly in­creased fines yes­ter­day, Sinanan said the Gov­ern­ment has fun­da­men­tal­ly mis­un­der­stood the pur­pose of traf­fic en­force­ment, shift­ing away from be­hav­iour­al change to­ward what he de­scribed as a “rev­enue-dri­ven ap­proach” that risks deep­en­ing law­less­ness rather than curb­ing it.