LTO braces for vacationers’ return

The Land Transportation Office (LTO) on Saturday ordered its field officers and enforcers to maintain the level of alertness for road safety in anticipation of the return of millions of Filipinos returning home after the Holy Week break.

“We are expecting the start of the land travel of some of our countrymen on Sunday, March 31, so my instruction is to implement the same road safety measures before the Holy Week exodus,” Assistant Secretary Vigor Mendoza II, LTO chief, said in a statement.

Among the measures, he said, are the inspection of the road worthiness of passenger buses leaving bus terminals in the provinces and the presence of LTO enforcers along the major thoroughfares in coordination with local governments and law enforcement agencies such as the Philippine National Police. —JEROME ANING