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Some members of the Boracay Ati Tribe have received their student driver license from the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to help open more livelihood opportunities for them. (Photo from Department of Transportation) ** The distribution of licenses is part of the outreach program of the Land
MANILA: The Department of Transportation (DOTr) intensified its anti-colorum operations to urgently combat what it calls âCOVID- 19 smugglingâ or the illegal transport of untested individuals to or from the NCR Plus bubble using colorum vehicles. During the Holy Week break, 12 colorum vehicles were caught ferrying passengers from NCR to Bicol Region. The Bicol Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (PDRRMO) reported that 79 of the colorum vehiclesâ passengers tested positive for COVID-19. In a recent  virtual press conference, Land Transportation Office (LT...
Published April 8, 2021, 8:22 PM Here’s some good news for embattled public utility vehicle (PUV) drivers. The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) said it will allow some 4,400 additional units of PUVs on roads next week to ferry essential commuters amid the reported proliferation of “colorum (out of line)” transport vehicles. LTFRB National Capital Region (NCR) Director Zona M. Tamayo said the agency is planning to reopen some 250 routes nationwide, which would in turn accommodate the PUV units including jeepneys and provincial buses going to and from Metro Ma...
(Ali Vicoy / MANILA BULLETIN) In an announcement on Monday, April 5, the Metro Rail Transit Line 3 (MRT-3) management said public utility buses (PUBs) under DOTr’s EDSA Carousel Bus Augmentation Program will remain operational. The buses will be rolled out along the MRT-3’s route from 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. Buses under the augmentation program were first deployed during the temporary suspension of the line’s operations from March 30, Holy Tuesday, to April 4, Easter Sunday, or during its annual maintenance and rehabilitation works. Maintenance works were also carried out on Light Rail Transi...
The new DFI must look beyond financing Roads Funding challenges - V Raju× The proposed development finance institution must find ways to bring private sector back into infrastructure A brand new DFI, the National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development (NABFID) is taking shape. The focus now, rightly so, is on equipping it financially to raise long-term money, the perennial bugbear of infrastructure financing. In a system awash with liquidity, this should not be too difficult, though it looks likely that NABFID will also lean on tax-break related funds as NHAI, IIFCL or PFC....