BACOLOD City – A transport group is urging the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) to establish a satellite office in the city.
Thousands of public utility vehicle drivers and operators would benefit if the agency puts up a satellite office for the processing of franchise applications and other documents, according to Diego Malacad, secretary-general of the United Negros Drivers and Operators Center (UNDOC).
Currently, Bacolod residents have to travel to Iloilo City and vice versa to secure documents released by LTFRB Region 6.
For Malacad, the LTFRB should acknowledge the “interest of convenience and monetary savings” of having to travel to Iloilo City in opening a satellite office here.
“We all know that most of the drivers have no android phone or using only analogue phone. They can’t make online transactions with the LTFRB-6 as prescribed by the agency,” Malacad stressed.
In a related development, Councilor Dindo Ramos, chairman of the City Council’s committee on transportation, advised transport groups to follow up the franchise application of some southbound public utility jeepneys (PUJs) plying the Sum-ag, Punta Taytay and Tangub to Central Market routes.
A mall here recently appealed to the city government to allow southbound PUJs to pass through Gatuslao Street.
But according to Ramos, the traffic experimental for PUJs was already finished.
“The city government already forwarded to the LTFRB the franchise application for approval, so transport groups need to follow up that to the agency,” said Ramos./PN
