Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at PITX

Maayong buntag sa inyong tanan. Assalamualaikum.

It is a pleasure to be here today at the Parañaque Integrated Terminal Exchange, bringing something we could consider good news.

Today, we will officially launch the Office of the Vice President’s ‘Peak Hours Augmentation Bus Service - Libreng Sakay’ Program.

We hope that through this program, we will be able to provide relief to some of our fellow Filipinos who rely on public transport for their daily commute to work, to school, and to many other places.

We launch this program today simultaneously with other key areas in Mindanao and the Visayas.

Two buses will be deployed in Metro Manila, one in Davao City, one in Cebu, and another one in Bacolod.

Let me emphasize that this program is a demonstration of effective government and private sector collaboration.

These buses were lent to us for OVP use. But as I said, the team decided that it would be more useful if they were deployed in some key areas of the country to support the libreng sakay of the DOTR.

It will support the national government’s program, and at the same time, it is hoped that this meager contribution will translate to daily savings for our public transport-riding kababayans.

I am hoping that this is just the start of many more fruitful collaborations with the private sector that are willing to spare their resources to provide much-needed relief to the public, especially now that the country continues to reel and recover from the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic and grappling from the effects of the global economic crisis.
Sa muli, napatunayan na naman natin na walang problemang hindi kayang solusyunan, kung tayo ay nagkakaisa at naniniwala na sa tulong ng ating gobyerno at mga kaibigan at supporters sa pribadong sektor, malalampasan natin ang lahat ng hamon na ating kinakaharap.
Maraming salamat sa inyong walang sawang suporta sa akin at sa buong administrayon ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

Patuloy po nating mahalin ang Pilipinas.
Shukran. Daghan salamat. Magandang umaga sa inyong lahat.