[av_one_full first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ padding=’0px’ border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ background_color=” src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=”]
[av_heading heading=’Ex-Cebu City councilor new LTFRB-6 director’ tag=’h3′ style=’blockquote modern-quote’ size=” subheading_active=’subheading_below’ subheading_size=’15’ padding=’10’ color=” custom_font=”]
BY RESEL JOY TIANERO
[/av_heading]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”]
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
[/av_textblock]
[av_textblock size=” font_color=” color=”]
ILOILO City – The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) Region 6 has a new director.
President Rodrigo Duterte appointed former Cebu City councilor Richard “Richie” Zayco Osmeña to head the regional office on March 31 yet but only assumed his post Friday last week.
His appointment papers went through the Department of Transportation and LTFRB central office in Metro Manila thus the delay, explained Atty. Ma. Joscet Buyco-Abellar, former officer-in-charge of LTFRB-6 and now its legal officer.
Osmeña took his oath of office just this May 5.
According to Edgar Salarda, president of the Pinag-isang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operators Nationwide – Panay, they were hoping the new director would be “open-minded”, listen and act on their concerns.
On the other hand, Raymundo Parcon, president of the Iloilo City Loop Alliance of Jeepney Operators and Drivers Association, said Osmeña should improve the processing of papers at LTFRB-6.
Recently, Salarda’s group again protested outside LTFRB-6. They were against the planned phaseout of passenger jeepneys 15 years old and older.
The group threatened more mass actions and suggested an alternative – overhaul or rehabilitation of old jeepneys.
According to Salarda, the phaseout would displace jeepney drivers and operators, and their families.
There were about 236,000 public utility jeepneys in the country, with Iloilo city and province accounting for about 5,700 of them, said Salarda./PN
[/av_textblock]
[/av_one_full]
