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Sunday, November 8, 2026

Issue #136

LTO Enforcement Actions Dominate Transport Coverage

The Land Transportation Office issued a show-cause order over a fatal bus incident in Quezon, suspended an SUV driver's license for 90 days, and drew public support for a leadership change, while the LTFRB's P555.75-million fine on Move It PH and airport modernization moves rounded out the day's transport news.

By the MMI Automotive Desk

LTO Enforcement Actions Dominate Transport Coverage

The Land Transportation Office (LTO) moved on three separate enforcement fronts on Saturday, and taken together the actions sketch an agency under pressure to show it can police the road. Its largest single action was a show-cause order against the driver and operator of a passenger bus whose engine cover detached while the vehicle was moving and struck a pedestrian waiting for a ride to Manila, killing her. The same day, the LTO suspended for 90 days the license of an SUV driver linked to the death of a 23-year-old online phone seller along EDSA in Mandaluyong on November 1. And a road-safety group publicly endorsed a career transport official, Atty. Noreen San Luis, to take the agency's top post amid complaints about delays in its online services.

The enforcement news arrived alongside a business-page column on the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board's (LTFRB) P555.75-million fine against ride-hailing app Move It PH for carrying far more motorcycle riders than its government allocation allows. The LTFRB is the agency that sets fares and franchise terms for public road transport, including the motorcycle-taxi pilot program under which Move It operates. Separately, the Department of Transportation (DOTr) said it would pursue more public-private partnership (PPP) projects with the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) before President Marcos leaves office in 2028, and the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) formally handed operational control of more than 2,100 closed-circuit television cameras at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) to the private concessionaire New NAIA Infra Corp. (NNIC).

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