MMDA wanted to ban delinquent PUV drivers, according to MMDA General Manager Arturo “Jojo” Garcia.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Monday wanted to ban delinquent drivers of public utility vehicles (PUVs), calling for PUV operators to keep such drivers from their vehicles.
This, as MMDA General Manager Arturo “Jojo” Garcia said in a press conference at the MMDA headquarters in Makati City that the MMDA will get those drivers with an excessive number of violations off the roads after forwarding the list of delinquent PUV drivers to the Land Transportation Office (LTO), adding that the MMDA wanted the riding public “to be out of danger” and prohibiting habitual traffic offenders was “one step to avoid road accidents”.
Garcia added that they have asked the Land Transportation Office to issue guidance on the apprehension of such drivers while the MMDA was “just an enforcement agency”. He also encouraged PUV operators to exercise their authority and “bar their errant drivers from holding the steering wheel”.
On Tuesday, the MMDA said that the traffic authority and the Land Transportation and Franchising Regulatory Board Technical (LTFRB) will sit down with bus operators to submit the names of drivers included in the LTO’s list of excessive violators. LTFRB Division Chief Joel Bolano supported MMDA’s strict measures against delinquent drivers, saying that suspending a large number of PUV drivers would not necessarily translate to a lesser number of PUVs in Metro Manila.
Moreover, Garcia added that the MMDA will also crackdown against private vehicle drivers and owners with more than three (3) violations of the same traffic offenses.
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