The City Transport and Traffic Management Office (CTTMO) announced that the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has issued special permits to additional buses to provide ease to passengers who flock to university areas during peak hours.
CTTMO Head Dionisio Abude said that they met with the LTFRB and the management of Bachelor Express Inc. for the deployment of buses to address the flocking of passengers on Matina Crossing, after the pedestrian overpass, in the mornings, and also in UM Bolton
and UM Matina in the afternoons.
He said that Bachelor has committed to providing the buses and their special permit had already been approved.
“Naa’y biyahe karon ang Bachelor kung buntag peak hours gikan sa Bangkal NHA, naa’y muagi sa Ecoland, ug naa’y muagi sa Bankerohan so mahapitan na ‘tong mga pasahero nga gikan Crossing Matina. Then pagkagabii ana sa peak hours sa hapon is naa’y mga bus nga muagi sa UM Bolton ug muagi sa UM Matina padulong Mintal, Calinan ug Toril, mao na ang iyahang ruta (Bachelor buses will pass by Bangkal NHA, it will have a route that will pass by Ecoland,
and there will be buses that will be passing by Bankerohan that will get passengers from Matina Crossing. In the afternoons, there will be buses passing by Bolton that will also pass by UM Matina for Mintal, Calinan, and Toril),” Abude said.
Abude said that based on the agreement, there will be two to five units maximum
in the morning and two to six buses maximum that will pass by UM Bolton in the afternoon.
“As of agreement sa atoang meeting, peak hours sa buntag 2-5 units nga gi-commit meaning to say kung kulang ang duha pwede pa mudugang og unit (As per agreement during our meeting, during the peak hours in the morning they committed 2-5 units, meaning to say if two are not enough they will add more units),” he said.
He said that the augmentation will depend upon the monitoring of the traffic enforcers and the inspectors will also advise the bus company to add buses, especially when rain is imminent.
Abude added that these routes and buses add to the current bus augmentation during peak hours for passengers going to Panacan, who are catered to by Golden Valley; Toril, who are catered to by LCI; Sto Niño, Mintal, Catalunan Pequeno and Mintal Proper catered to by Metro Shuttle. CIO
