Panayam kay Executive Assistant to the DOTr Secretary Jonathan Gesmundo tungkol sa paghuli sa violators ng EDSA busway at anti-colorum operations na patuloy na isinasagawa
Panayam kay Executive Assistant to the DOTr Secretary Jonathan Gesmundo tungkol sa paghuli sa violators ng EDSA busway at anti-colorum operations na patuloy na isinasagawa
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00:00Updates on EDSA busway apprehensions and anti-cholerome operations,
00:05we will discuss with Jonathan Guismundo,
00:08Executive Assistant to the Secretary of the Department of Transportation.
00:13Sir Jonathan, good afternoon.
00:20Sir Jonathan, I think they're on mute.
00:25Oh, okay.
00:26Alright, yes.
00:28Good morning again.
00:29Yes, good afternoon. Have you had your lunch yet?
00:33No, we haven't.
00:35We're both the same.
00:37Well, maybe because you still have a lot of,
00:41are you still monitoring EDSA busways today?
00:45And you can't finish it.
00:47How many apprehensions are there on average?
00:49The ones you're catching every day,
00:51I hope it's a bit more or more.
00:56It's decreasing.
00:58There are a lot of apprehensions.
01:01So we will not stop.
01:05This morning, it was still early in the morning,
01:10from 5.30 to about 7 a.m., there were a lot of apprehensions.
01:15But there are still a lot of enforcers who are not stopping.
01:20We are not surprised that there are a lot of apprehensions.
01:24There are a lot of feeling entitled drivers who are being forced.
01:30Maybe they think that there are no enforcers for the day or for that hour.
01:36Why are we doing this?
01:40We are enforcing the rules of the busways so that we can maintain the busways
01:46to be the most efficient road transport for now.
01:51Because we believe that this busway project will be successful.
01:58We are replicating this in Cebu.
02:04The construction of our own busway is ongoing in Mega Cebu.
02:11In Davao, the contracts and the funding sources have been signed.
02:20We will make a wider busway system in Davao.
02:26It will be better here in the busway.
02:29We will use electric buses.
02:33We will deploy at least 100 electric buses once the counterpart busway in Davao is completed.
02:43Davao is very wide.
02:45I think the criss-crossing roads in Davao are up to 100 kilometers.
02:50The concept is also like that, dedicated for public transport.
02:55Not only buses, but also modern jeeps will be used in Davao.
03:00Anyway, back here in the busway,
03:02there are people who are asking what will happen to those who are being arrested.
03:09Again, we will not get tired of enforcing the regulations in the busway.
03:16So either you will be given a ticket and you will be penalized at P5,000 for first offense,
03:25or if you are persistent and try to escape,
03:29the LTO will issue a cost order if you should still have a driver's license.
03:40You know, the question is, most of those who will be arrested are motorcycles.
03:49Because motorcycles can enter and exit the busway.
03:58However, they may not know that the enforcers have cameras and the CCTVs of the MMDA are being used.
04:10Even if you contest that, there is evidence that you used the busway.
04:16So you will be issued a ticket.
04:19If the arrest is not correct, there is a way.
04:28If you want to complain, the LTO has a Traffic Adjudication Service.
04:35You will go there if you feel that the arrest is not correct.
04:40Sir Jonathan, you mentioned earlier that the number of violators is decreasing.
04:48Can we know how low the number of violators of EDSA busway is from your monitoring?
04:58I can't hold their numbers.
05:05But I think the last three months are significant.
05:13This July, from 2-6-9, the tickets were issued.
05:22But that is just for one month.
05:26We have nine, this is for just one month, nine government-owned vehicles and ambulances.
05:34So I think these numbers are lower than the previous months.
05:38But in our opinion, we gave a good lesson to those who were arrested and are planning to repeat it.
05:53The next penalty will be painful for you, P10,000.
06:01So we are hoping that the numbers will decrease.
06:06We do not expect that the violators of EDSA busway will disappear.
06:12Just a reminder, if there are those who are listening and thinking,
06:18let's think together about other paths if you are in a hurry.
06:25Plan your trips in advance.
06:27Let's not try to be alone in using the EDSA busway
06:33because this is one of the first projects of the DOTR to have systems in traffic
06:44to protect vehicle owners in public transport.
06:51Leave your vehicles and use public buses that pass through the EDSA busway.
06:58That will help us to pass through the traffic, especially in EDSA.
07:04Okay. Sir Jonathan, this is another thing.
07:07When the sun sets, where there is a lot of traffic,
07:13there are still reports of motorists passing through the EDSA carousel
07:18because there are no more arrests.
07:21How do we monitor this and find a solution?
07:27Yes, it's good. Those comments are most welcome.
07:33There are people who are in a hurry in the stations, etc.
07:39We welcome those comments.
07:41Our way to address that is, as I said,
07:45the MMDA has CCTVs.
07:47We will monitor.
07:49Give us, we will look at the time, the station,
07:53if there is a bus that passed through,
07:55or if there is a bus that passed through the busway of private vehicles.
08:00We will monitor the CCTV cameras of the MMDA
08:05to find out what vehicle it is,
08:09through their plates, to issue a show-cause order.
08:14So, bring your observations to the DOTR
08:19so that we can find those who are violating the time of the night,
08:26the early hours.
08:28Sir Jonathan, can we also ask for an update on your anti-colorum operations?
08:35How big is your number of apprehensions here every day?
08:41Again, Usec, I cannot hold the numbers, the reports.
08:47What I can report to you is that our anti-colorum campaign,
08:52this is with big help to the MMDA here in Metro Manila.
09:00But SAIC is going, has started to go to other parts of the country for anti-colorum.
09:10In fact, we are already forming teams in major cities, not just Cebu and Davao.
09:21We are forming SAIC teams to teach them where there are groups of anti-colorum.
09:35Anti-colorum campaigns will start in other parts of the country.
09:41We hope that we can expand this campaign.
09:46The registered or non-colorum, the public transport companies,
09:57have seen that they are happy with the anti-colorum campaign.
10:04If you can remember, the legal transport groups are saying that the colorum eats up to 30 percent of their income.
10:16They are reducing their income by 30 percent.
10:18It has an effect.
10:20The amount is not that big.
10:24The registered transport groups are adding to their income.
10:30That's why the anti-colorum effect of SAIC is good.
10:35Okay. How big is the penalty that you will impose on the colorum vehicles?
10:42It's different.
10:46Sorry, I can't give you the penalties.
10:50It's different because there are colorum jeepneys, colorum vans, colorum buses.
10:59The rates are different.
11:01Okay. For example, can you give an example or average?
11:07The maximum for one bus, one aircon bus, I think is one million.
11:17That's the maximum.
11:19Maximum. Okay.
11:21Do you have other measures to stop the spread of colorum in vehicles?
11:29You said that is a very good question.
11:33At certain times, I am also thinking about that.
11:37Because, compared to EDSA Busway, we do not see the day that the violators of EDSA Busway will disappear.
11:50In the anti-colorum, we look at possibly eliminating the problem of colorum transport.
12:00We try to show the passengers not to be afraid. That is one approach.
12:09We will try to make it difficult for the organized, in Tagalog, syndicate of colorum.
12:21We will try to make it difficult for their operation.
12:25Number three is we encourage, we already have a campaign.
12:31If you think that your vehicle is a colorum, call this number or contact this number.
12:39There are different approaches.
12:43There are different approaches.
12:45But for others, I don't know.
12:49Maybe when the colorum finds out, that's what we will do.
12:53So we will avoid them.
12:55I will not give you other strategies.
13:00But again, this is not just limited to NCR.
13:04We are already going to many other places.
13:08Hopefully, in the next weeks and months, we will see the effect of the anti-colorum campaign.
13:16Good luck and thank you very much for your time, Jonathan Guzmundo,
13:20Executive Assistant to the Secretary of the Department of Transportation.
13:26Thank you very much.