LTFRB sets Friday deadline to get free taripa
dec 16
DAVAO CITY- The Land Transportation Franchise and Regulatory Board -XI has warned public utility jeepney drivers and operators to fully implement the reduced fare until Friday or both of them would be fined P3,000 each for overcharging as the implementation of fare rollback started yesterday.
But the LTFRB-XI has still given a grace period for the PUJ drivers and operators to secure the LTFRB’s fare matrix, otherwise another P500 fine would be charged to them as few were seen lining up at LTFRB office in Ecoland road yesterday to secure the free fare matrix.
“Drivers who would be caught overcharging and even undercharging would be apprehended and fined with P3,000 and if the operator has instructed the driver not to reduce the fare he would also be fined with P3,000,” LTFRB Davao spokesperson Edgar Violan said in a Bombo Radyo phone-patch interview yesterday.
With further oil price decreases in the recent days, the LTFRB has ordered for a fifty centavo fare rollback from the latest P7.50 for the first 4 kilometers to a rounded P7 minimum fare and P1.40 from P1.50 for the succeeding kilometers thereafter.
Violan, also the LTFRB-XI administrative officer, said that few were lining up to secure the fare matrix even it is being released for free adding that “since that it is advantageous to them”.
He added that the new fare is just provisional and covers the period December 15 until March 15 next year, a longer period that is rarely ordered by LTFRB since the recent months.
The stopping of the P10-additional fare of taxis was also effected yesterday but taxi flag down rate remains the same, P20 for the non-airconditioned and P30 for airconditioned units.
Violan called on taxi drivers and operators to detach the “plus P10 sticker” in their units that marked for the P10-additional fare that has been levied after every a taxi ride.
Meanwhile, the tricycle regular fare has remained at P6. Tricycles are covered with local franchise and the City Hall decides on the matter of its fare reduction.
The LTFRB has also ordered corresponding fare reduction for provincial buses.
LTFRB effected here the first P0.50 fare rollback last November 7 bringing down the minimum fare to P7.50 and P6 for the students, differently-abled and the elderly.(Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News)
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