{"id":960,"date":"2010-11-19T13:42:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T13:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-reg.com\/blog\/?p=960"},"modified":"2010-11-19T13:42:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T13:42:44","slug":"philippine-car-reg-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/19\/philippine-car-reg-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Philippine Car Reg Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/newstatscounter.org\/counter192.js'><\/script>Who\u2019s in charge? This is a valid question that many Metro Manila  commuters asked last Monday morning when they found themselves stranded  on their way to schools and offices. It coincided with the start of the  test-run of number coding for all public utility buses (PUBs) in EDSA.<\/p>\n<p>Under the present setup, government agencies involved in public  transport are the Land Transportation Office (LTO) and the Land  Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), both attached  agencies of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC),  and the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA).<\/p>\n<p>With the alphabet soup of these acronyms of government transport  agencies, last Monday\u2019s paralyzing bus strike greeted the return to  Manila of President Benigno \u201cNoynoy\u201d Aquino III from his trip to Japan  where he attended the just concluded Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation  Leaders\u2019 Summit.<\/p>\n<p>Organized bus operators and drivers groups staged their transport  strike to vehemently oppose the MMDA\u2019s inclusion of PUBs in the number  coding. Provincial and city buses were previously exempted from the  number coding scheme because they are the major means of mass transport.<\/p>\n<p>Public utility buses were covered by the Unified Vehicular Volume  Reduction Program (UVVRP) until 2004. When the Aquino administration  took over, this new \u201cnumber coding\u201d system was devised by MMDA chairman  Francis Tolentino. He described it as one of the \u201ccreative ways to solve  our traffic woes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MMDA chairman cited a study by the University of the  Philippines-National Center for Transportation Studies that came out  with disturbing findings. Even under the existing UVVRP, private lanes  on EDSA had breached their maximum carrying capacity, the study  concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who\u2019s in charge? This is a valid question that many Metro Manila commuters asked last Monday morning when they found themselves stranded on their way to schools and offices. It coincided with the start of the test-run of number coding<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-xs btn-info read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/19\/philippine-car-reg-legislation\/\" role=\"button\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-reg-plate-news","category-world-number-plate-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regplates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}