LTFRB: Only 10 RTMI buses under suspension

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 the commuters from the region have nothing to worry because the suspension order will not in any way paralyze the operation of RTMI here in the region.

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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