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By Bohol Sunday Post

      As expected, the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) last week approved P8 as the minimum PUJ fare effective July 14, following the series of increases in the prices of petroleum products.

      The new fare rate means an increase of P1 to the old rate.

      While the regular fare for the first five kilometers is P8, students, senior citizens and disabled persons will just have to pay P6.50.

      To the minimum fare, P1 will be added on for each succeeding kilometer. This means drivers charge P9 for ferrying passengers to six kilometers, P10 for seven kilometers and so on.

      For students, senior citizens, and disabled persons, the add-on is only 80 centavos for every succeeding kilometer, to be rounded off to the nearest multiple of 25 centavos.

      This means, students, senior citizens, and disabled persons will have to pay P6.50 for a travel of five kilometers or less, P7.25 for six kilometers, and P8 for seven kilometers, and so on.

      LTFRB set up a mobile service at the Bohol Employment and Placement Office (BEPO) on Friday and yesterday to cater to PUJ operators and drivers who needed to get their copies of the new fare rate matrix which LTFRB requires them to post inside the passenger jeeps.

      LTFRB Memorandum Circular 90-020 dated September 21, 1990 makes it mandatory for PUJ operators and drivers to post an updated copy of the fare rates matrix.

      For motor tricycles-for-hire, the city government approved the one-peso fare increase from P6 to P7.

      On May 21, LTFRB granted a nationwide provisional 50-centavo fare increase wherein Metro Manila’s minimum fare rate became P8, while in Central Visayas, it became P6.50.

      Later in the ensuing deliberations, LTFRB-7 Regional Director Romulo Bernardes convinced the LTFRB en banc to grant another 50-centavo increase for Central Visayas.

      So the starting June 30, the minimum fare in Region 7 became P7 for the first five kilometers.

      Bernardes further succeeded in convincing the LTFRB en banc for raising the minimum fare rate to P8 now.

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