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                    [Title] => Amend law on colorum vehicles, solons urged
                    [Summary] => Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. is urging lawmakers to amend the law on public conveyance in colorum operations.


Concerned about the proliferation of the colorum PUVs, Abalos argued that the fines imposed on violators are not enough to stop the illegal operation.


At present, vehicles apprehended for colorum operations are impounded until the owners pay the fines.


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                    [Title] => Litterbugs arrested in Makati
                    [Summary] => A total of 265 persons were apprehended by the Makati Solid Waste Management Division (SWMD) for littering between March and April this year.


In a report submitted to Mayor Jejomar Binay, SWMD chief Raul Javier said 88 of the litterbugs were sentenced to community service, which included a day-long clean-up drive along major streets of Makati during the recent Earth Day celebration.


Another 35 of the violators were  fined P500 each and the remaining 142 were summoned by the office of the SWMD for disciplinary action.


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                    [Title] => Jancom offers reduction in tipping fee
                    [Summary] => An official of Jancom Environmental Corp. said recently that he is amenable to a further reduction in the tipping fee for its sanitary landfill project for Metro Manila’s garbage.


Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. announced yesterday that JEC President Leonides Gonzales personally informed him of the possible price reduction during a television interview the other night.


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                    [Title] => Abalos meets investors in HK at conference
                    [Summary] => Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. is set to meet with investors in the vital infrastructure projects within and around the metropolis today in Hong Kong.


Abalos was designated by Malacañang as the official representative of the country for the three-day Infrastructure Asia 2002 forum in Hong Kong.


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                    [Title] => Abalos warns bus operators to help solve traffic problems or else...
                    [Summary] => Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. threatened to revoke the exemption of public utility buses (PUBs) from the color-coding scheme unless their owners do something to address the traffic problem on major thoroughfares.


Abalos said that two of the major reasons for the worsening traffic situation in Metro Manila are the huge volume of vehicles and undisciplined PUB drivers.


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                    [Title] => ‘Operation Summer’
                    [Summary] => Metropolitan Manila Development  Authority Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. announced that everything is set for the observance of Holy Week next week and the summer vacation.


Dubbed Oplan Sumvac for the summer vacation and Operation Semana Santa for the Holy Week, the MMDA would be joined by the Department of Transportation and Communications and the law enforcement agencies in ensuring safe travel for thousands of vacationers.


Abalos said that the unified vehicular volume reduction program or the color-coding scheme would be suspended from March 25 to April 1.


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                    [Title] => Compromise on Jancom case sought
                    [Summary] => Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. admitted yesterday that he is negotiating with Jancom Environmental Corporation (JEC) for a possible compromise agreement on the P390 billion garbage contract.


This comes even as the MMDA has filed a petition with the Supreme Court en banc  for a clarification and review of the High Scourt’s Third Division’s ruling in favor of JEC.


The MMDA argued that the JEC contract was too costly for the government and has negative implications on the environment.


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                    [Title] => Traffic men to get more incentives
                    [Summary] => Traffic enforcers in Metro Manila will now receive an additional 10 percent in their share of traffic fines as an incentive.


Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. announced that the traffic enforcers’ share would now be 20 percent of the total fines collected.


Abalos added that traffic commanders of all levels would also be given a 15 percent share of the fines, which was not done before.


Unchanged were the shares of the Traffic Enforcement Units at five percent and the local government units at 10 percent.


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                    [Title] => Creation of traffic court gets support
                    [Summary] => Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. expressed his support for the proposal to establish a traffic court to handle all traffic-related cases.


The idea to set-up a traffic court was raised recently by Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Roberto Lastimoso as a means to stop corruption.


Abalos said that the idea of the traffic court is not new and is merely a revival of an old concept used during the 1950s.


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                    [Title] => PUJ drivers told: Obey traffic laws
                    [Summary] => Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. said that he would not back down on his recommendation to revoke licenses of drivers who habitually violate traffic laws.


Abalos was reacting to the threat of public utility jeepney (PUJ) drivers’ groups to stage mass actions protesting the policy because it is "unconstitutional" and anti-poor.


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METROPOLITAN MANILA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY CHAIRMAN BENJAMIN ABALOS SR.

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Concerned about the proliferation of the colorum PUVs, Abalos argued that the fines imposed on violators are not enough to stop the illegal operation.


At present, vehicles apprehended for colorum operations are impounded until the owners pay the fines.


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Another 35 of the violators were  fined P500 each and the remaining 142 were summoned by the office of the SWMD for disciplinary action.


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                    [Title] => Jancom offers reduction in tipping fee
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Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. announced yesterday that JEC President Leonides Gonzales personally informed him of the possible price reduction during a television interview the other night.


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Abalos said that two of the major reasons for the worsening traffic situation in Metro Manila are the huge volume of vehicles and undisciplined PUB drivers.


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Dubbed Oplan Sumvac for the summer vacation and Operation Semana Santa for the Holy Week, the MMDA would be joined by the Department of Transportation and Communications and the law enforcement agencies in ensuring safe travel for thousands of vacationers.


Abalos said that the unified vehicular volume reduction program or the color-coding scheme would be suspended from March 25 to April 1.


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This comes even as the MMDA has filed a petition with the Supreme Court en banc  for a clarification and review of the High Scourt’s Third Division’s ruling in favor of JEC.


The MMDA argued that the JEC contract was too costly for the government and has negative implications on the environment.


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Abalos added that traffic commanders of all levels would also be given a 15 percent share of the fines, which was not done before.


Unchanged were the shares of the Traffic Enforcement Units at five percent and the local government units at 10 percent.


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The idea to set-up a traffic court was raised recently by Land Transportation Office (LTO) chief Roberto Lastimoso as a means to stop corruption.


Abalos said that the idea of the traffic court is not new and is merely a revival of an old concept used during the 1950s.


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                    [Summary] => Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. said that he would not back down on his recommendation to revoke licenses of drivers who habitually violate traffic laws.


Abalos was reacting to the threat of public utility jeepney (PUJ) drivers’ groups to stage mass actions protesting the policy because it is "unconstitutional" and anti-poor.


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