MANILA, Philippines — Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade has admitted to senators that he saw a “failure” in both the leadership and the discharge of functions in the Toll Regulatory Board (TRB), which has been receiving backlash over the problematic implementation of the cashless toll payment scheme.
“Usapang prangkahan ito, nakita ko na there is a failure of implementation dito sa TRB,” Tugade said during Thursday’s hearing of the Senate public services committee.
(Let’s be frank here, I saw a failure of implementation in the TRB.)
Tugade said he already instructed the TRB to conduct a regular audit on the implementation of the radio-frequency identification (RFID) at to…
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