House reps from provincial districts score MMDA bus ban plan for being ‘anti-probinsyano’

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Why are you discriminating against provincial buses? Provincial representatives asked this Tuesday as they lament the plan of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to prohibit provincial buses from plying EDSA to ease the dreaded traffic on the national highway.

Why are you discriminating against provincial buses?

At the hearing, Camarines Sur Representative and Deputy Speaker Luis Raymund “Lray” Villafuerte Jr. reiterated his opposition on the proposed bus ban. He said the bus ban will not solve the Metro Manila’s “complex problem” on traffic as he noted that the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board is supposedly planning to add new 2,000 point-to-point buses to receive commuters from endpoints and bring them to their destinations within the capital region.

Ako-BICOL party list Rep. Alfredo Garbin Jr., who earlier sought the Supreme Court to stop the MMDA’s plan, said city buses cause the heavy traffic in EDSA, and not provincial buses which convey commuters at night to the wee hours of morning. Former Bayan Muna representative Neri Colmenares, meanwhile, argued that the MMDA has no authority to impose such a ban, citing an SC ruling. The Bayan Muna had also filed a petition before the SC seeking to halt the MMDA’s plan.

 

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Everybody knows that ever since..Buses from the Provinces ply in EDSA..It is very clear that provincial buses does not cause TRAFFIC. It is actually the volume of PRIVATE CARS plying in EDSA. MMDA refer please the new registered cars since 2001 up to the present and City Buses.

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