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00:00On Wednesday, LRT 1 will continue to provide 5 to 10 pesos extra for passengers.
00:06And for the jeeps, Transportation Secretary Vince Dizon ordered that the PUV Modernization Program be re-studied.
00:14Joseph Moro witnessed this.
00:17As of April, LRT 1 will provide 5 to 10 pesos extra for passengers.
00:27So the previous minimum fare of 15 pesos will now be 20 pesos.
00:32The maximum fare from Dr. Santos to Fernando Poe Jr. in Quezon City,
00:37which was 45 pesos, will now be 55 pesos.
00:40The fare will now be cheaper than the stored value ticket or BIP cards.
00:45The Transportation Group tried to petition the tasking yields of Malacanang, but DOTR and Malacanang said,
00:52The risk of the current operations of LRT 1 is too high.
01:00The decision now is to continue with the fare increase.
01:04If I'm not mistaken, it was mentioned that the price should have risen a long time ago,
01:10but it was halted for our commuters.
01:13But if we look at the situation, if this is included in the contract and it is not fulfilled by the government,
01:23our commuters will have a bigger problem.
01:28According to the Light Rail Manila Corporation or LRMC, which is a private company running LRT Line 1,
01:34they were only allowed to increase the fare once since they got the contract in 2014.
01:43Meanwhile, for those who depend on jeeps, there is hope that the prohibition will not be completely lifted.
01:48Traditional jeeps are considered as colorum because they did not join the Public Transport Modernization Program or PTMP.
01:55At the request of DOTR and Manibela Group, Transportation Secretary Vince Dizon said,
02:01that if he is the only one, he will allow their Provisional Authority to renew the traditional jeeps while they are still fixing the program.
02:09Secretary Dizon is re-studying the program in a committee he formed and he is hoping that changes will be made.
02:18This was led by Road Transport of DOTR, Office of the Transportation Cooperative, and Land Transportation Office or LTO.
02:26Why is there no Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board or LTFRB that is providing franchises?
02:33This does not mean that we will have changes in the LTFRB.
02:37I'm saying that categorically.
02:39It's really fresh eyes.
02:40It's a new perspective, a new look of this program because we admitted that there are a lot of things to fix.
02:49We are thankful because we requested this from our Secretary last week.
02:54He immediately approved it.
02:56We can say that he is listening.
03:00Manibela Group is hoping to issue a decision before Easter.
03:04For GMA Integrated News, Joseph Morong is your witness.
03:19For GMA Integrated News, Joseph Morong is your witness.