FOLLOWING a renewed drive against unregistered public utility vehicles (PUVs) in Metro Manila, officials of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) today inspected the agency’s impounding area near the HK Sun Plaza on Roxas Boulevard where colorum and out of line passenger buses are being impounded.
Since March 9, more than 30 colorum vehicles have been impounded here after operations against them were intensified.
The operations were conducted folloeing reports from provincial and city bus operators that numerous provincial buses bypass the Paranaque Integrated Terminal Exchange (PITEX). Most of the colorum vehicles, including passenger buses and AUVs, were apprehended on C5 Road, Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard and major roads in Pasay City.
MMDA chairman Romando Artes warned bus companies not to engage in “payola” to traffic enforcers, which only give a “false sense of security from being apprehended.”
“We do not tolerate extortion, bribery, and other forms of corruption among our personnel or they will be dealt with accordingly. We will continue apprehending colorum and out of line buses,” Artes stressed.
Meanwhile, MMDA general manager Frisco San Juan Jr. announced that they will be intensifying operations against public utility vehicles (PUVs) that do not have proper franchises from the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board.
“The MMDA will continue our drive against colorum and out of line vehicles with the newly-appointed Anti-Colorum Unit Head Bong Nebrija,” San Juan noted.
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