The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) is trying right into a well being incident on a contemporary jeepney which will have been attributable to overcrowding.
According to Oscar Oida’s report on 24 Oras on Monday, a girl collapsed on the street after getting off a contemporary jeepney alongside Marcos Highway in Pasig City. A video taken by an individual on the scene exhibits well being staff putting the unconscious girl on a stretcher to take her to the hospital.
The one that took the video additionally mentioned that different feminine passengers advised them that the automobile had been full of passengers.
LTFRB Chairperson Teofile Guadiz III mentioned that he has ordered an investigation into the incident and to determine the motive force and the operator of the fashionable jeepney unit, “para sa pag-impose ng kaukulang parusa sa kanila at anumang araw ay isho-show cause order natin sila [in order to impose the corresponding penalty on them and we will issue them a show cause order].”
“Matagal na natin silang binibigyang babala na huwag silang magsiksik nang magsiksik ng mga pasahero lalo na’t kapag puno na at may mga matatanda at PWD. Nasa banta pa rin tayo ng COVID-19,” he added.
(We have lengthy been warning them to not pack their passengers in, particularly when the jeepney is already full and there are outdated individuals and individuals with incapacity. We are nonetheless within the COVID-19 pandemic.)
According to an LTFRB memorandum, a contemporary jeepney can carry as much as 28 passengers: 23 seated and 5 standing. But a number of passengers interviewed by GMA Integrated News mentioned the jeepneys tackle much more passengers than the restrict. “Siksikan, so konti yung nalalanghap mong air, so ang nangyayari siyempre hindi makahinga nang maayos,” mentioned rider Mikay Dela Cruz.
(It will get jam-packed, so you do not get quite a lot of air, so what occurs is you possibly can’t breathe correctly.)
Some drivers, nevertheless, favor packing within the passengers to allow them to clear the upper “boundary”—the minimal day by day earnings drivers should remit to the operator— of contemporary jeepneys.
“Hindi ka rin makaka-boundary kung walang pasahero eh,” mentioned driver Efren Tagibao. “Doon ka rin kukuha ng pang-gas at pang-boundary. Hindi ka kikita hanggang hindi nailabas ‘yung gas saka boundary eh.”
(You cannot meet the boundary with out passengers. That’s the place you get the cash for the fuel and the boundary. You will not earn except you make above what you want for the fuel and the boundary.)
The boundary for the fashionable jeepney, in response to some drivers, may attain P3,500 or extra, a lot larger than the P900 boundary for conventional jeepneys.
Both drivers and passengers, then, are compelled to cope with the overcrowding: the previous to have the ability to make a residing, and the latter to have the ability to go to work, faculty, or dwelling.
Driver Tiny Manda mentioned that if he packs the passengers in, he’s generally in a position to take dwelling P1,000 a day. If he would not, he fails to fulfill the boundary.
“No choice na yung mga tao kundi makipagsiksikan, para lang makauwi,” mentioned commuter Dela Cruz.
(We haven’t any alternative however to cram ourselves in, simply to have the ability to get dwelling.) — BM, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
