By Perfecto T. Raymundo, Jr.
QUEZON CITY — The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has ordered all division chiefs of the agency to resolve within 30 days all the pending motions and petitions that could be traced as far as more than two years ago.
LTFRB Chairman Atty. Vigor D. Mendoza II said that the order was based on the instruction of Secretary Giovanni Z. Lopez after being informed of the thousands of backlogs based on the report submitted to his office.
The report arose from the accounting of all the pending motions and petitions ordered by Chairman Mendoza when he assumed the top LTFRB last Oct. 10.
“Secretary Lopez was bothered by this report and he immediately ordered us to solve the backlog in the soonest possible time since this may have something to do with the public transportation problems not only in Metro Manila but also in other parts of the country,” Chairman Mendoza said.
Secretary Lopez earlier ordered all top executives of the DOTr to commute as part of the measures to identify the problems and come up with solutions to the worsening problems of commuters.
Chairman Mendoza, for his part, vowed to address the concerns of transport groups which were raised during the series of consultations with them immediately after he took over the LTFRB.
And one of them is the pending motions and petitions which prompted Chairman Mendoza to order an immediate accounting.
In the consolidated reports he received, Mendoza said that he was surprised to learn that there are around 33,000 motions and petitions before the LTFRB Board, some of them dating back more than two years ago.
Aside from the 33,000 pending in LTFRB Board, Mendoza also found out that there are around 4,000 more pending motions and petitions in various divisions of the LTFRB.
“We have to put this problem to rest because by doing so, this will certainly lead to easing the burden by both the commuters and those from the transport sector, particularly operators and drivers of public utility vehicles,” Mendoza said.
In order to expedite addressing the backlog, Chairman Mendoza said that all divisions chiefs were ordered to solve the 4,000 pending motions and petitions in 30 days.
“On the part of the LTFRB Board, we will employ all means to sign off all the orders and decisions on or before December 15 (2025),” Mendoza said.
And in order not to add more on the thousands of backlog, Chairman Mendoza, under the guidance of Secretary Lopez, issued a policy to resolve newly-filed motions and petitions within 15 days after the date of filing.
Mendoza said that he will personally monitor the progress of all the pending motions and petitions to ensure compliance. ###
