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ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 54 -
CREATING A COMMITTEE THAT WILL FORMULATE AND IMPLEMENT THE PLAN TO BAN
PROVINCIAL BUSES FROM PLYING THE MAJOR THOROUGHFARES OF METRO MANILA
WHEREAS, Sec. 3 of Republic Act No.
7924, otherwise known as the Act creating the Metro Manila Development
Authority (MMDA), has identified one of its services as the provision
of necessary Metro Manila-wide transport and traffic management which
include the formulation, coordination, and monitoring of policies,
standards, programs and projects to rationalize the existing transport
operations, infrastructure requirements, the use of thoroughfares, and
promotion of safe and convenient movement of persons and goods; the
institution of a system to regulate road users; and the administration
and implementation of all traffic enforcement operations, traffic
engineering services and traffic education programs;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Executive Order No. 125, dated January 30, 1987,
as amended by Executive Order No. 125-A, dated April 13, 1987, the
Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC), is mandated to
formulate and recommend policies and guidelines for, as well as
establish and administer comprehensive and integrated programs for, the
preparation and implementation of integrated and comprehensive
transportation systems at the national, regional and local levels;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the above-cited Executive Orders, the DOTC must
likewise assess, review and provide direction to the implementation of
said transportation systems, and for this purpose, may call on any
agency, corporation, or organization, whether public or private, whose
development programs include transportation as an integral part
thereof, to participate and assist in the preparation and
implementation of such program;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the above-cited Executive Orders, the Land
Transportation Office is tasked with the mandate to establish and
prescribe rules and regulations for the inspection and registration of
public and land transportation facilities, as well as for the issuance
of licenses to qualified motor vehicle drivers and
conductors;
WHEREAS, pursuant to Sec. 5 of Executive Order No. 202, dated June
19, 1987, one of the main powers and functions of the Land
Transportation Franchising And Regulatory Board is to prescribe and
regulate routes of service, economically viable capacities and zones or
areas of operation of public land transportation services provided by
motorized vehicles in accordance with the public land transportation
development plans and programs approved by the DOTC, and to issue,
amend, revise, suspend or cancel Certificates of Public Convenience or
permits authorizing the operation of public land transportation
services provided by motorized vehicles, and to prescribe the
appropriate terms and conditions therefore;
WHEREAS, in an effort to decongest traffic within Metro Manila, the
MMDA has recommended that provincial buses going to and/or coming from
Metro Manila be prohibited to ply along Metro Manila's major
thoroughfares starting August, 1999;
WHEREAS, the MMDA has likewise recommended that central terminals for
provincial buses going to and/or coming from Metro Manila be located at
the peripheries of the metropolis, starting with the existing central
terminal at the Food Terminal Inc. (FTI) Compound in Taguig, Metro
Manila, as the site for buses going to and/or coming from the south of
Metro Manila;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH EJERCITO ESTRADA, President of the Republic
of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do
hereby order the following:
Section 1.
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Sec. 2.
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Sec. 3.
Activity
1.
rezoning plan and submission to
the President
for approval.
2.
the FTI Compound, Taguig to
fully serve the
southern sector of Metro Manila
3.
operationalization of the
central terminal that
shall serve the northern sector
of Metro
Manila
4.
operationalization of the
central terminals that
shall serve the coastal and
eastern sector of
Metro Manila
Sec. 4.
Sec. 5.
Sec. 6.
February 24, 1999.
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