There just aren’t any more words for this.
“The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has issued a preventive suspension order on all 18 MGP Trans buses after one of its buses figured in an accident that left six people dead and more than 30 passengers injured in November 2013,” reports Reinir Padua in The Philippine Star.
According to LTFRB chairman Winston Ginez, the MGP Bus, which was rear-ended by an Elena Liner Bus at the EDSA-Magallanes bus loading bay, “was a phased out 1991 model and should not have been plying the roads.” As such, MGP Trans appears to have committed “a serious violation of its certificate for public conveyance (CPC) permit and faces cancellation or revocation of its bus franchise.”
An LTFRB team will confiscate the licenses of all 18 buses at the MGP Trans garage on Saturday, Jan 11. A public hearing is set on Jan 21 so MGP can justify why it should get its license back.
The report didn’t mention if the Elena Liner Bus company was also being scrutinized.
