MANILA, Philippines — The Senate committee on public services will summon Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade to answer to the “lamentable experience” of motorists from his department’s alleged “ill-studied” order for expressway operators to implement cashless toll collection.
Senator Grace Poe, chair of the panel, has filed a resolution that also asks the DOTr to revisit the order and suspend its full implementation.
“Today iniikot na ang resolution na ‘yan galing sa committee ko. Narinig ko na kay Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian, na isa sa mga naunang naghain niyan, na susuportahan nga niya itong tawag na ito,” she said in an interview on Thursday.
(Today, the resolution from my …
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