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LTFRB extends franchise consolidation deadline for PUV modernization

Published Dec 23, 2020 03:04 pm

In response to the appeal made by DUMPER-PTDA Partylist Rep. Claudine Bautista the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has agreed to extend until March 31, 2021 the deadline for the filing of applications for consolidation of individual and existing franchise holders provided under the PUV Modernization Program (PUVMP).

(MANILA BULLETIN FILE PHOTO)

The LTFRB issued Memorandum Circular No. 2020-084 to lift the December 31. 2020 deadline for the consolidation of all individual franchise holders into cooperatives or corporations which is in compliance with the “one route, one operator concept” under the PUVMP.

MC-2020-084 was signed on Friday by LTFRB headed by Chairman Martin Delgra III and Commissioners Ronaldo Corpus and Joel C. Pernito.

Bautista, vice chairperson of the House Committee on Transportation, requested the board to extend the deadline.

“Whereas, the Board is in receipt of a request from Hon. Claudine Diana D. Baujtista, representative of DUMPER-PTDA Partylist, stating therein the need to extend the period of consolidation for those covered under the PUVMP,” the LTFRB noted as it issued MC 2020-084.

Bautista, who is an assistant majority leader in the House of Representatives, thanked Delgra and the LTFRB board for its affirmative action on her request. She also credited the Department of Transportation headed by Secretary Arthur Tugade for looking after the welfare of the PUV sector.

Previously, the LTFRB extended until December 31,2020 the filing deadline, or six months after the original July 10, 2020 schedule. This was in response to President Duterte’s declaration of a national health emergency as a result of the COVID 19 pandemic.

Bautista said that while government has been succeeding in its response to the COVID 19 threat, the public transport industry has yet to fully recover from the adverse effects of the pandemic.

“PUV operators and drivers cannot at this moment shoulder the cost that comes with the filing of their application for consolidation. Their current economic situation necessitates that they be given more time to get back to their own feet and fully recover,” Bautista explained.

She also pointed out that under the Bayanihan To Recover As One Act (Bayanihan 2) any phase out of non-compliant routes is barred.

“I never doubted that the LTFRB will heed the appeal of the public transport sector. The board deserves commendation from a grateful industry,” stressed Bautista.

In granting an extension for the filing of application for industry consolidation, the LTFRB also considered the existing quarantine protocols in the country, saying that this made it difficult to concerned grantees of certificate of public convenience to file their applications for consolidation.

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