00:00Senate Chair of Public Services Raffy Tulfo led the hearing on a list of woes plaguing the transportation industry
00:06to include the growing number of public transport bus accidents as a result of poor maintenance and brake failure.
00:13Drivers refusing to slow down approaching pedestrian lanes or crosswalks
00:17and rising deaths on a stretch of Tanay Highway where modern bikers race each other illegally.
00:23The full report from our Daniel Manalastas.
00:27The Senate Public Services Committee conducted a hearing to discuss various road and transportation problems.
00:35Among them, the problems of some issues, particularly commuter buses that usually end up in road accidents due mostly to brake failure.
00:45Why? There are a lot of buses that lose brakes. Is it maintenance? Yes.
00:54Are they surplus in other countries that are converted?
00:58They pass through Subic, converted from right-hand drive to left-hand drive.
01:02And when it comes to conversion, it's not good.
01:07It affects the mechanical.
01:10In the DOTR, we take 100% of the concern that you have raised on the matter.
01:19The buses that apply to the franchise, the requirement is that they need to enter the franchise.
01:29Also tackled in the hearing is the total disregard for pedestrian lanes or street crosswalks.
01:35Senator Raffy Tulfo has proposed this solution to the problem.
01:40While advocacy groups also voiced their complaints.
01:43Maybe we should put a humps.
01:45Except if there is a stoplight.
01:48If there is no stoplight, let's put a humps.
01:51To really force the vehicles to stop.
01:55They already know, because the hands have power.
01:59They said, we will hit more at the same time.
02:03So the accident cannot be avoided.
02:07Whatever defense we are doing.
02:09Meanwhile, a number of complaints also reached senators regarding the reported deaths along Marilake Highway.
02:16As some reports allege of the roadway's transformation to a racetrack.
02:21When motorcycle riders congregate on it for their need for speed and racing.
02:27This is the exact location, General.
02:29From Tanay to Tanay.
02:32The record of our deaths there is huge.
02:35Even the motorcycles are being made into a raider.
02:40A lot of people died, including private vehicles.
02:43I don't want to hear that there are deaths there.
02:46They are making it into a racing track.
02:49I think sir, the police regional office is aware of this.
02:55But we will direct them again to intensify their presence in that area.
03:00Daniel Imran Astaz from the National TV for a new and better Philippines.
