{"id":44919,"date":"2019-06-21T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T01:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=44919"},"modified":"2019-06-21T13:18:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T05:18:45","slug":"free-wifi-better-sanitary-facilities-now-required-in-public-terminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2019\/06\/21\/free-wifi-better-sanitary-facilities-now-required-in-public-terminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Free WiFi, Better Sanitary Facilities Now Required in Public Terminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">President Duterte recently enacted <strong>Republic Act 11311,<\/strong> which seeks to allocate funding for the improvement of public transportation terminals, stations, and stops in the country.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ltfrb.central.office\/photos\/a.1417559258485998\/2291854517723130\/?type=3&#038;theater<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Under the newly signed law, public terminals are required to have clean sanitary facilities in accordance with Presidential Decree 856 or the <strong>Code of Sanitation of the Philippines<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This includes the construction of bathrooms for people with disabilities and female and male passengers. Said bathrooms must be equipped with an adequate water supply, a flush system, toilet seat with cover, a lavatory with basic necessities like toilet paper, soap, mirror, and hand dryer, as well as a door lock and waste bin. Diaper changing stations should also be provided.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ltfrb.central.office\/photos\/a.1417559258485998\/2292580730983842\/?type=3&#038;theater<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Passengers should be able to use the facilities <strong>FREE<\/strong> of charge, provided that\u00a0they\u00a0present the bus tickets valid that day. However, this provision does not apply to commercially-built facilities operated within the terminals. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ltfrb.central.office\/photos\/a.1417559258485998\/2292632304312018\/?type=3&#038;theater<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Owners and operators who fail to comply with the provisions of the law must pay corresponding fines and penalties. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The law was signed last April 17 but was only released to the public late this month amid talks of Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) working on a new route modification policy, which eyes to implement the provincial bus ban along EDSA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Also read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/tips-guides\/2018\/11\/05\/the-expats-ultimate-guide-to-public-transportation-in-the-philippines\/\">The Expats\u2019 Ultimate Guide to Public Transportation in the Philippines<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Sources:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.officialgazette.gov.ph\/downloads\/2019\/06jun\/20190417-RA-11311-RRD.pdf\">RA 11311<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.philstar.com\/nation\/2019\/06\/16\/1926789\/ltfrb-shorten-provincial-bus-routes\">Philippine Star<br \/>\n<\/a><\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Featured image grabbed from LTFRB Facebook.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Duterte recently enacted Republic Act 11311, which seeks to allocate funding for the improvement of public transportation terminals, stations, and stops in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9334,4921,9336,6599,9342,9343],"class_list":["post-44919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-better-sanitary-facilities-now-required-in-public-terminals","tag-free-wifi","tag-free-wifi-better-sanitary-facilities-now-required-in-public-terminals","tag-public-transportation","tag-public-transportation-philippines","tag-terminal-philippines"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/06\/Station-LTFRB-FB-e1561088683613.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44923,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44919\/revisions\/44923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}