According to James Agustin’s report on “State of the Nation”, a complete of 168,400 passengers had been recorded within the land terminal as of 9 p.m.
Most of the passengers had been touring to their respective provinces forward of the New Year’s Eve celebration.
To cope with the inflow of commuters, PITX deployed a further 30 buses per day to reinforce their common journeys.
Despite this, scheduled land journeys to Bicol are already totally booked.
Some passengers who didn’t safe tickets opted to remain in PITX as they waited for extra journeys on the each day schedule.
“Mahirap dahil nakikisabayan kami sa mga dumarating na pasahero ganyan kaya mahirap. Magtitiyaga na lang kami para makauwi ng Bicol,” an aged passenger stated.
(It’s troublesome as a result of there are numerous passengers. We will simply wait right here simply so we are able to go house to Bicol.)
Meanwhile, passengers proceed to troop to seaports in Luzon for the vacations as per a report of Paul Hernandez of GMA Regional TV Balitang Southern Tagalog on “State of the Nation” on Tuesday.
At the Batangas Port, lengthy traces of passengers shaped on the ready space, departure space, ticketing cubicles, and even at ambulant tellers.
Around 5,000 outbound passengers, had been reported within the Port of Calapan in Oriental Mindoro. The Philippine Ports Authority (PPA) Mindoro assured the scenario within the port stays manageable.
In Quezon, the operations within the Port of Lucena are nonetheless regular with two transport traces ferrying passengers to their island locations.
Meanwhile, robust waves lengthened journeys on the Matnog Port in Sorsogon however no journeys had been canceled as of reporting.
The PPA stated it’s getting ready for the potential surge of passengers in seaports on January 2, 2024, as the vacation break ends.—RF, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
