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(NAR) VOL. 11 NO.3 / JULY – SEP. 2000

[ LTFRB MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 2000-017, August 08, 2000 ]

DESIGNATION OF PRIORITY/EXPRESS LANE AND INSTALLATION OF A DIAPER-CHANGING TABLE INSIDE THE RESTROOM WITHIN THE BUS TERMINALS



In compliance with Executive Order No. 273, approving and adopting the Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development for 1995 to 2025, and to further enhance the provisions of LTFRB Memorandum Circular No. 88-0024, whereby bus operators are required to provide adequate, safe and clean bus terminals, provincial bus operators are hereby required to:

1.      Provide/Designate Priority Lane in their terminals, stations and sub-stations for persons with special needs specifically mothers traveling with small children and persons with physical disabilities; and

2.      Install a diaper-changing table inside the women’s restrooms for female passengers traveling with babies.

Provincial bus operators are given up to six (6) months from the effectivity of this circular to implement and fully comply with the same.

The LTFRB GAD Focal Point representatives will be conducting periodic inspection of the terminals, stations and sub-stations of provincial bus operators in Metro Manila and provinces to ensure compliance and the Board will subject to administrative sanctions those found not complying with this circular.

This Memorandum Circular shall take effect fifteen (15) days after the filing of three (3) copies hereof with the U.P. Law Center, in accordance with Presidential Memorandum Circular No. 11, dated 09 October 1992.

Adopted: 08 August 2000

(Sgd.) DANTE M. LANTIN
Chairman

(Sgd.) REMEDIOS G. BELLEZA
Board Member

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