BY: ANA-LIZA S. MACATANGAY
NAGA CITY, April 10 (PIA) --- A more responsive transport sector towards shared economic development.
This is what Land Transportation Office (LTO) Bicol regional director Atty. Noreen Bernadette San Luis-Lutey has wished to achieve after meeting with operators, drivers and public conveyance stakeholders during the transport summit held today at the Avenue Plaza Hotel, this city.
Lutey said that the occasion endeavors to hit three purposes- the conduct of the transport summit with other government agencies, public consultation with the members of the transport group on fines and penalties and collaboration with the Department of Tourism (DOT) towards a more enhanced tourism through the transport sector.
“We are happy with the turn-out of participants which only signifies their desire to know and collaborate with the programs of the government and work for the betterment of the transport sector as a whole. Everything that has been said here, all the suggestions will be incorporated in the draft and will be submitted to the transport secretary,” Lutey said in an interview.
Government agencies like the DOT, PhilHealth, Social Security System (SSS), Office of the Transport Cooperative and Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF) or PAG-IBIG Fund Office were also invited to inform the members of the transport groups what are the readily-available government programs that they can avail.
LTO Operations Division Officer chief Mar Jose A. Magistrado said that there are a lot of benefits that members of the transport groups can avail but they do not know they exist.
“I guess there is a need to inform them of the many benefits that these agencies can offer it’s only that they are not aware that they can avail it. We have invited our partner agencies here to talk about health insurance, social security and transport cooperatives. DOT is here considering the transport sector as their partners in tourism development.”
Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) Regional Director Engr. Roel V. Alsisto said that this is also an opportune time for the members of the transport sector to ventilate their concerns regarding the newly imposed penalties that they issued.
Under the new rules set by LTFRB, colorum buses will be sanctioned with a 1M-peso fine while out of line vehicles will be fined with P200,000.00
Alsisto said that this new scheme might deter the proliferation of colorum and out-of-line buses and other transport vehicles plying unregistered route to be wary since the stake is high.
At the end of the day, Alsisto hoped that the consultation will be a meeting of minds which would result to a win-win solution with the concerns affecting the public transport sector. (MAL/LSM-PIA5/CamSur)
- See more at: http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=861397118754#sthash.6UyXWT6z.dpuf
NAGA CITY, April 10 (PIA) --- A more responsive transport sector towards shared economic development.
This is what Land Transportation Office (LTO) Bicol regional director Atty. Noreen Bernadette San Luis-Lutey has wished to achieve after meeting with operators, drivers and public conveyance stakeholders during the transport summit held today at the Avenue Plaza Hotel, this city.
Lutey said that the occasion endeavors to hit three purposes- the conduct of the transport summit with other government agencies, public consultation with the members of the transport group on fines and penalties and collaboration with the Department of Tourism (DOT) towards a more enhanced tourism through the transport sector.
“We are happy with the turn-out of participants which only signifies their desire to know and collaborate with the programs of the government and work for the betterment of the transport sector as a whole. Everything that has been said here, all the suggestions will be incorporated in the draft and will be submitted to the transport secretary,” Lutey said in an interview.
Government agencies like the DOT, PhilHealth, Social Security System (SSS), Office of the Transport Cooperative and Home Development Mutual Fund (HDMF) or PAG-IBIG Fund Office were also invited to inform the members of the transport groups what are the readily-available government programs that they can avail.
LTO Operations Division Officer chief Mar Jose A. Magistrado said that there are a lot of benefits that members of the transport groups can avail but they do not know they exist.
“I guess there is a need to inform them of the many benefits that these agencies can offer it’s only that they are not aware that they can avail it. We have invited our partner agencies here to talk about health insurance, social security and transport cooperatives. DOT is here considering the transport sector as their partners in tourism development.”
Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) Regional Director Engr. Roel V. Alsisto said that this is also an opportune time for the members of the transport sector to ventilate their concerns regarding the newly imposed penalties that they issued.
Under the new rules set by LTFRB, colorum buses will be sanctioned with a 1M-peso fine while out of line vehicles will be fined with P200,000.00
Alsisto said that this new scheme might deter the proliferation of colorum and out-of-line buses and other transport vehicles plying unregistered route to be wary since the stake is high.
At the end of the day, Alsisto hoped that the consultation will be a meeting of minds which would result to a win-win solution with the concerns affecting the public transport sector. (MAL/LSM-PIA5/CamSur)
- See more at: http://news.pia.gov.ph/index.php?article=861397118754#sthash.6UyXWT6z.dpuf
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