As passengers are anticipated to extend this vacation season, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) reinstated its “Oplan Isnabero” towards errant taxi drivers.
According to Joseph Morong’s report on “24 Oras” on Monday, the LTFRB inspired the general public to report taxi drivers who would snub or select passengers.
Aside from its hotline, the company adopted a QR-code that can be posted on public automobiles the place the general public might simply report erring drivers.
Taxi drivers that will be confirmed to snub/select passenger may have the next fines:
- P5,000 for 1st offense
- P10,000 for 2nd offense and;
- 15,000 and attainable revocation of the franchise unit for third offense.
Meanwhile, Grab Philippines stated that they’ve a scarcity of models in comparison with the demand that has doubled this vacation season.
Since November 15, the variety of bookings that they had been ready to answer had decreased, notably throughout the longer peak hours from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Grab Senior Director for Strategy and Operations Ronald Roda stated they’re learning to have a cap on surge charges like what they carried out in 2019 when the utmost surge charge was 1.8x as an alternative of 2x.
“We’re considering measures to make sure that fares do not go up too much,” Roda stated.
According to Grab, they want 10,000 models of automobiles this December. However, LTFRB has suspended granting franchises for personal automobiles that wish to grow to be Grab models.
The Manila International Airport Authority was additionally asking for as much as 500 Grab models to be deployed at airports throughout rush hour.
“The board will consider any additional [units] depending upon kung ano talaga ‘yung performance right now of the TNVS at saka TNC operations… mabilis naman kasi may charter naman tayo that covers it eh,” stated LTFRB officer-in-charge Engineer Riza Marie Pachez.
But Grab believed that extra models wouldn’t be prepared this month as it will take a month to course of an software.
Meanwhile, round 1.15 million passengers have availed of the Libreng Sakay program from December 1 to 4, knowledge from the LTFRB revealed.
Around 100 buses are participating within the 24/7 working hours of this system, which is able to final till Dec. 31.
The P3 billion allotted by Congress for service contracting, similar to free rides, and gas subsidies for subsequent 12 months was stated to be inadequate as P9 billion was wanted without cost rides, the report added. — Mel Matthew Doctor/DVM, GMA Integrated News
