MANILA, Philippines—President Benigno Aquino III does not need to ride the public rail transits to give in to a commuters’ group clamor, Malacañang said on Wednesday.
Herminio Coloma, Presidential Communications Operations Office secretary, said in a media briefing that Aquino already understood the daily problems of riders of the Light Rail Transit and Metro Rail Transit.
“The President does not need to do that (ride the MRT and LRT),” Coloma said. “He already understood the problems that commuters face daily on the trains.”
The National Center for Commuter Safety and Protection dared the President to ride the public trains to experience the long lines and overcrowding that commuters experience each day.
The government plans to increase the fare on the rail systems by as much as P10 for the maximum fare of the LRT and P13 for the MRT.
Coloma said that the President is already speeding up the implementation of the capacity expansion projects to increase the coaches in the rail systems.
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