{"id":219461,"date":"2019-06-19T01:48:21","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T05:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=219461"},"modified":"2019-06-19T01:48:21","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T05:48:21","slug":"prrd-signs-law-requiring-clean-restrooms-in-transport-hubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/06\/19\/prrd-signs-law-requiring-clean-restrooms-in-transport-hubs\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD signs law requiring clean restrooms in transport hubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_209698\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-209698\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/7062769249_00859f7a3d_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-209698\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/7062769249_00859f7a3d_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/7062769249_00859f7a3d_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/7062769249_00859f7a3d_z-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/7062769249_00859f7a3d_z-20x11.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-209698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: DLTBCo. buses at the Legazpi Grand Central Terminal, Legaspi City. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/r0ckx\/7062769249\/\">File Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/r0ckx\/\">Josh Hernandez\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law requiring clean restrooms, lactation stations, and free internet in all transport terminals, stations and roll-on\/roll-off terminals.<\/p>\n<p>Duterte signed Republic Act 11311 on April 17, 2019 but a copy of the document was released to reporters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Under the law, the state &#8220;recognizes that the right of every establishment to a fair return of investment carries with it a corresponding social responsibility to provide adequate facilities for the comfort of its clientele.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Towards the end, the State shall hereby require the owners, operators, and administrators of land transportation terminals, stations, stops, rest areas, and roll-on\/roll-off terminals to improve their facilities through the provision of free internet services, and clean sanitary facilities,&#8221; the law read.<\/p>\n<p>Among the standards for sanitary facilities include providing separate restrooms for persons with disabilities, male, and female passengers; adequate ventilation and lighting; safe, adequate, and running water supply.<\/p>\n<p>There should also be a flush system; toilet seat with cover; a lavatory with toilet paper, mirror, soap, hand dryer and door lock; a waste bin; and exclusive space for diaper-changing.<\/p>\n<p>Lactation stations should also be private, clean, sanitary, and well-ventilated rooms where nursing mothers can wash up, breastfeed, or express their milk comfortably.<\/p>\n<p>The law also prohibits transport terminals to collect fees from passengers for the use of regular sanitary facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of fees, passengers only need to show the paid bus ticket for the day in order to avail of the free use of sanitary facilities.<\/p>\n<p>A PHP5,000 fine will be imposed on the owner, operator, or administrator of land transport terminals, stations, stops, rest areas who do not comply with the law.<em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; President Rodrigo Duterte has signed a law requiring clean restrooms, lactation stations, and free internet in all transport terminals, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":209698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219462,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219461\/revisions\/219462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}