00:00It is expected to increase the number of passengers who will board the Integrated Terminal Exchange or PITX
00:07to celebrate Christmas and New Year in their respective provinces.
00:11For more details, Patricia Lopez of IBC 13 is on the line of the telephone.
00:19Patricia?
00:20This is Patricia Lopez on the line of the telephone.
00:26There are still many of our countrymen who are boarding the Integrated Terminal Exchange
00:32to be able to travel back to their respective provinces.
00:35As of 6 p.m., there are already 183,000 passengers boarding the terminal.
00:42There are almost 230,000 passengers on the line.
00:49PITX is expecting that the number of passengers will increase in the next few hours.
00:56There are also many chance passengers who are eager to get a ticket to go home.
01:02In fact, from December 20 until now,
01:06there are more than 800,000 passengers boarding the PITX.
01:12That's why the number of PITX extra trips to different provinces is increasing.
01:18Some trips to Santa Elena, Quezon province were delayed this afternoon
01:23because of the heavy traffic to the provinces.
01:26In Talarinang Terminal, the fully booked trips so far are the buses going to Olongapo City.
01:33However, PITX is assuring that available trips will be available as soon as the buses are available.
01:40Because of the continuous drop in the number of passengers in the terminal,
01:43it is expected that from December 20 until January 6 next year,
01:48the total volume of passengers in the PITX will reach 3 million.
01:53PITX continues to remind passengers that they are not allowed to bring any valuable items here
02:02or any items that are possible to be stolen.
02:06In the last PITX trip, the items that were confiscated reached 81.
02:12According to the police deployed here,
02:15there were no cases of theft or robbery since December 20.
02:19Only a few lost or misplaced personal belongings such as cellphones and wallets.
02:29From IBC 13, Patricia Lopez for Panbalitan Pambalitan.
02:35Thank you very much Patricia Lopez of IBC 13.
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