Senator Raffy Tulfo and other senators filed a Senate resolution expressing the sense of the Senate to temporarily suspend the implementation of the Public Transport Modernization Program (PTMP), formerly known as the PUV Modernization Program.
Those who authored Senate Resolution (SR) No. 1096 along with Tulfo are Senate President Francis Escudero, Majority Leader Francis Tolentino, Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel, Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada; and Senators Nancy Binay, Alan Peter Cayetano, Pia Cayetano, Ronald Dela Rosa, Loren Legarda, Imee Marcos, Robin Padilla, Grace Poe, Bong Revilla, Joel Villanueva, Cynthia Villar, Mark Villar and Juan Miguel Zubiri.
During the July 23 Senate hearing of the Committee on Public Services which Tulfo chairs, he found out that the modernization program was unplanned and rushed.
“There is an urgent need to thoroughly review and reassess the impact of the program, to alleviate the fears of the drivers and transport operators who will be directly burdened by its implementation,” the resolution read.
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