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Heavy traffic is seen along Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) during peak business hours. The Philippine economy loses P4.1 billion daily due to the traffic problem in Metro Manila, a transportation official said on Monday.
MANILA – The Philippine economy loses P4.1 billion daily due to the traffic problem in Metro Manila, a transportation official said on Monday.
Transportation assistant secretary Mark de Leon said this is based on the 2017 study by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
The figure has almost doubled since the last study in 2014, which found that the country was losing P2.4 billion a day to traffic congestion in the capital region.
De Leon was one of the resource person in the Senate public services committee’s hearing on the Department of Transportation’s (DOTr) public utility vehicle (PUV) modernization program.
The DOTr official said traffic problem in Metro Manila has continued to deterioate because of poor public transportation.
“Kaya lumalaki ang congestion levels kasi iyong mga tao will not opt to use public transportation, kaya dumadami iyong traffic natin… kasi nga napaka-inconvenient ng ating public transportation,” De Leon said.
He assured the committee that the public will be provided with safer and comfortable mode of transportation with the implementation of PUV modernization program,
During the hearing, De Leon said there are already a total of 179,663 registered passenger jeepneys nationwide and 90 percent of these units are already 15 years old and above.
Under the program, modern PUVs must comply with the DOTr’s emission standards (Euro 4 and above), whether they are e-jeepneys or not.
The department’s route rationalization program will identify the approved routes for PUVs, and the Local Public Transport Route Plan will determine the number of units that will ply each route based on demand.
An operator who wants to serve a certain route can join a cooperative or other legal entity to do so. Operators are not required to own a certain number of units, and there is no minimum capitalization. (GMA News)
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