The Land Transportation Office (LTO) has committed to deploy what it described as sufficient number of its personnel amid the start of the crackdown on public utility vehicles (PUVs) that failed to consolidate into a corporation or cooperative as part of he modernization program. The...
Starting Thursday, May 16, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) will start running after operators and drivers of passenger jeepneys and other public utility vehicles (PUVs) who failed to comply with the government’s regulation of consolidating into cooperative or...
ILOILO CITY – Twenty-three percent of passenger jeepneys in Western Visayas have yet to comply with the government’s public utility vehicle modernization program. TRADITIONAL jeepneys continue to serve the riding public in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) The Land Transportation Franchising and...
CEBU CITY – A warning that fares for modern jeepneys would increase to as high as P40 once the Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP) is fully implemented is baseless, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board-central Visayas (LTFRB-7) said. The LTFRB-7 was reacting...
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) assured commuters that there is no basis to implement a fare hike as the government’s Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Programs (PUVMP) concluded the first phase of its implementation, which is the consolidation of operators...
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) is expecting at least 80 percent of passenger jeepneys nationwide to have complied after the April 30 deadline for their operators to consolidate into either a cooperative or a corporation. LTFRB chairperson Teofilo Guadiz III said...
Government agencies are now preparing for the scheduled tansport strike by two major transport groups in protest of President Marcos’s decision not to extend the April 30 deadline for consolidation of all public utility vehicle operators to give way to the modernization program. On the part of...
The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has rejected the request of Francisco Motors for an “unli-ride” along jeepney routes as it tries to introduce its own version of modern jeepneys that are planned to be given to some transport groups for free. Francisco...
Senators are hoping that the challenges being faced by drivers under the franchise consolidation of the government's Public Utility Vehicle Modernization Program (PUVMP) have been addressed. This, as the solons noted the impending deadline of the consolidation on April 30. "We acknowledge the April...
Passenger buses and modern jeepneys will be deployed to offset the temporary closure of the Philippine National Railways (PNR), the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) said on Wednesday, March 27. LTFRB chairman Teofilo Guadiz III said they have already identified two...
Special permits would be immediately issued if there would be a shortage of passenger buses in various terminals across the country, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) said on Wednesday, March 27. LTFRB chairman Teofilo Guadiz III said they are continuously...
Senator Grace Poe said on Tuesday, March 26, that the technical working group (TWG) studying the concept of motorcycle taxi should finish and submit its pilot study amid calls for its expansion. "Expanding the program to other locations and new players needs efficient planning and traffic...
