The Philippine National Police on Thursday said it would dispatch vehicles to provide free rides to commuters amid an impending strike by some transport groups next week.
PNP spokesperson Col. Jean Fajardo said their mobility assets would augment other vehicles to be provided by other government agencies.
“Just hail PNP patrol vehicles and these would provide assistance to you in going to your destination,” she said.
“This early, we are contacting the transport groups so that we can also provide them with protection and identify their possible rally areas so that it does not cause traffic obstruction or traffic congestion. We will give them that day, but of course, we will exercise maximum tolerance so that there will not be any trouble on the day when they will actually hold rallies on the roads,” Fajardo added.
On Thursday, transport groups Pagkakaisa ng mga Samahan ng Tsuper at Opereytor Nationwide (Piston) and Samahang Manibela Mananakay at Nagkaisang Terminal ng Transportasyon (Manibela) announced a nationwide transport strike next week.
This came a day after President Marcos Jr. said the April 30 deadline for the franchise consolidation of public utility vehicles (PUV) under the government’s transport modernization program would no longer be extended.