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The Department of Transportation (DOTr) should make sure that everything goes smoothly with the planned resumption of the “Libreng Sakay” or free ride program with passenger busses this year.

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) urged the public to immediately report bus drivers or conductors who ask for fare for the EDSA Busway.

Four people were hurt after two passenger buses figured in an accident along Epifanio Delos Santos Avenue (EDSA) in Bagong Barrio, Caloocan City on Monday, Sept. 13

A local business group has urged to implement total system upgrade of the EDSA busway and bus service on the “Carousel Line” as well as its eventual privatization for cost effective operation of the mass transport system.

Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. Luis “LRay” Villafuerte has praised the extension of the “Libreng Sakay” (Free rides) for the EDSA Carousel bus transit line, which President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. approved.

Presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos and his running mate, vice presidential candidate Sara Duterte-Carpio, will make EDSA Carousel bus rides permanently free should they win in the coming elections.

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) on Monday, Oct. 18, issued a show cause order against two consortiums operating along the EDSA Busway for deploying insufficient numbers of buses on the route and for not paying the salary of their drivers and conductors under the “Libreng Sakay” program.

A 36-year-old homeless man was pinned to death by an oncoming bus along the EDSA Carousel in Quezon City Tuesday morning.

A child died after he was hit and pinned by the same bus he threw stones at along EDSA in Quezon City Thursday morning.

Eight people were injured when a bus and an ambulance collided in Mandaluyong City Friday night.

Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade called on law enforcement agencies to enforce stricter security measures on the “EDSA Carousel” following an incident along the busway involving a traffic marshal and an armed individual.

Commuters and a marshal of the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) got a surprise of their lives after they witnessed how a beggar on crutches suddenly began to walk and even ran later at the EDSA Carousel Ortigas Avenue stop.

The Mega Manila Consortium Corporation (MMCC) has belied claims that its bus firms on the EDSA Carousel Route participating in the government’s free ride program have limited their operations over issues of non-payment.