{"id":37675,"date":"2015-01-08T02:23:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=37675"},"modified":"2015-01-08T02:23:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T18:23:57","slug":"cayetano-sees-no-rational-arguments-to-raise-mrt-lrt-fare-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/08\/cayetano-sees-no-rational-arguments-to-raise-mrt-lrt-fare-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Cayetano sees no rational arguments to raise MRT, LRT fare rates"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate Majority Floor Leader Alan Peter Cayetano. Photo courtesy of Cayetano’s Facebook page.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA \u2013 Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano on Wednesday believed there are no logical arguments to increase the fare rates of the Metro Rail Transit (MRT) and Light Rail Transit (LRT).<\/p>\n

\u201dI\u2019m confident that when the numbers come out, we will find an empty argument of the government to impose this big increase. I can\u2019t see logical arguments for the increase,” Cayetano told the Senate media.<\/p>\n

Cayetano said the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) will have no choice but to stop the fare hike if the government fails to justify the P1-peso per kilometer increase for the MRT 3 and LRT Lines 1 and 2.<\/p>\n

\u201dI believe that only one hearing and we will find out that it (fare increase) is not justified, the government will have no choice but to stop the fare hike,\u201d Cayetano said.<\/p>\n

Senator Grace Poe has said the Senate subcommittee on public services will invite DOTC Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya to explain the MRT and LRT fare hikes without public consultation.<\/p>\n

Cayetano said the Supreme Court (SC) should decide in favor of the petitioners calling for the scrapping of the fare increase in the country\u2019s mass transit system.<\/p>\n

The Senate official also believed that President Benigno Aquino III has been misled by his alter ego in the transport sector.<\/p>\n

\u201dI believed that the president has been misled here. I think the facts that are given to him, and remember, the president cannot go to all the details. Have they submitted the different matrix, the different options that they have?,\u201d Cayetano said.<\/p>\n

Cayetano said the Senate will use its oversight power to investigate and inform the public particularly President Aquino whether or not there is really a need for fare hike.<\/p>\n

\u201dWe will do it (investigation) for him (the President). If it is wrong (the fare hike), we will present it to the people and to the President too,\u201d Cayetano said.<\/p>\n

He said the government should make special consideration to the people who patronize MRT and LRT \u201cbecause they want to save money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201dThe commuters using MRT and LRT are not those who have three cars but are poor people avoiding traffic and higher bus fares,\u201d Cayetano explained.<\/p>\n

Cayetano said he is in favor for immediate conduct of the Senate hearing on the MRT and LRT fare hike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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