The Senate public services committee kickstarted its discussion on the impending phaseout of traditional jeepneys in a bid to avert the looming weeklong transport strike. | BPinlacINQ
This was prompted by Senate Resolution No. 44, authored by basic services panel chairperson Sen.
Grace Poe and unanimously adopted by the upper chamber, which urges the Land Transportation and Franchising and Regulatory Board to defer the planned phaseout as part of the government’s public utility vehicle modernization program.The LTFRB had already announced another extension in the validity of the provisional authorities or franchises of traditional jeepneys from June 30 to Dec. 31.
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