Cavite mayors support MMDA's bus terminal project
July 31, 2013 | 1:15pm
MANILA, Philippines - Mayors in Cavite province on Wednesday vowed to support to Metro Manila Development Authority's Southwest Integrated Terminal project which aims to stamp out colorum buses plying the Cavite-Manila route.
Members of the Cavite Mayors' League met with MMDA chairman Francis Tolentino in Makati City and signed a manifesto, expressing their full support to the agency's efforts to ease traffic congestion in Metro Manila.
"We will do our best to explain to our constituents and the bus operators the benefits of this terminal project," Noveleta Mayor Enrico Alvarez, the group president , said.
Through the Southwest Integrated Terminal, Alvarez said the MMDA will eradicate colorum buses that are competing with duly-franchised buses.
The Cavite mayors also lauded President Benigno Aquino III for signing Executive Order No. 67 providing for the establishment of the integrated transport system in Metro Manila.
Alvarez said the Cavite Mayors’ League also thanked Tolentino for filing a petition before the Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board, seeking to lower the passenger fares of buses covered by the operation of the Southwest Integrated Terminal.
If approved, it will benefit passengers who have to transfer to another public utility vehicle to get to their destination, such as those who are bound to Roxas Boulevard area and Lawton, Manila, Alvarez said.
LTFRB has earlier issued Memorandum Circular No. 213-004 amending the franchises of public utility buses covered by the integrated terminal project.
For his part, Tolentino said the Southwest Integrated Terminal program will not be successful without the cooperation of the bus operators and local officials of Cavite.
"This integrated terminal is only part of our concerted effort to address the traffic problem of Metro Manila," he said.
The Southwest Integrated Terminal is set to be inaugurated on August 6.
Like other bus terminals put up by the MMDA, the terminal will also make use of the biometric-based system in which drivers are subjected to fingerprint scanning for verification before they are allowed to ply their route.
The terminal, located at Uniwide reclamation area, can handle 955 passenger buses plying Cavite and Batangas provinces a day.
The Southwest Integrated Terminal is one of the three planned integrated facilities to be set up in Metro Manila. The two others will be located at Trinoma Mall in Quezon City, and at Filinvest in Alabang, Muntinlupa.
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