PAGADIAN CITY,
Zamboanga del Sur, Feb. 20 (PNA) -–The Land Transportation Franchising and
Regulatory Board (LTFRB) clarified that the 30-day preventive suspension order
the agency slapped on the Rural Transit Mindanao Incorporated (RTMI) is not
against the operation of the entire RTMI.
LTFRB head Swilbery
Baybayan made the clarification Thursday after the RTMI continue its operation
despite the preventive suspension order.
Baybayan said the
suspension order issued Tuesday by LTFRB Chairman Winston Ginez only covers 10
units of RTMI’s fleet of buses and not the entire company.
Baybayan said that
all the 10 buses covered by the 30-day preventive suspension order are
registered in Region X.
The RTMI is one of
the two bus firms the LTFRB placed under a 30-day preventive suspension after
one of its buses figured in an accident last Saturday that injured 20
passengers, mostly teachers, in the municipality of Siay, Zamboanga Sibugay.
The other bus firm
placed under preventive suspension together with RTMI is the Antonina Line
after one of its bus figured in an accident Sunday in Libmanan, Camarines Sur
that killed five passengers and injured 46 others.
The RTMI is the only
bus firm that served the cities and provinces here in Western Mindanao and in
Northern Mindanao areas. (PNA)
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