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MMDA urges small provincial bus companies to find 'common terminals'

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/news/01/06/bus-terminal-010617.jpg"/></figure></div><p>Provincial bus companies that do not have proper pick-up and drop-off points should &quot;group together and find a common terminal&quot; to comply with the government&#x27;s &quot;nose-in, nose-out policy,&quot; Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) general manager Thomas Orbos said Friday.</p><p>The &quot;<a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/12/14/16/nose-in-nose-out-sinubukan-sa-edsa">nose-in, nose-out policy</a>&quot; mandates all provincial bus companies to ensure that their buses will not queue outside terminals along EDSA when loading and unloading passengers.</p><p>&quot;Yung mga imposible makapag-comply sa nose-in, nose-out... magsama-sama na lang sila, baka they can solve it on their own,&quot; Orbos said.</p><p>(Those who cannot comply should group together and maybe they can solve it among themselves.)</p><figure class="op-interactive"><div id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1_Container"> <ivs-player id="IVS_ABS_Body_Video_1" data-ivs-spid="3001339" data-ivs-key="e8c22c015ca9eafa76f1e3edfa03c603" data-ivs-vid="1459584" data-ivs-floating="1"></ivs-player> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/iframe-parent.js"></script> <script src="https://player.ivideosmart.com/ivsplayer/v4/dist/js/loader.js"></script> </div></figure><p>He said bus companies can find and share the upkeep of common bus terminals outside EDSA while the government is still ironing out the construction of a terminal in the southwest part of Metro Manila.</p><p>&quot;Beginning Tuesday... Kailangan i-implement na ng strikto yung &#x27;nose-in, nose-out,&#x27;&quot; Orbos said.</p><p>&quot;It&#x27;s unfair for the provincial bus terminals na maganda naman yung pagkatayo. Nakikita ko na they are trying their best na mapaikot sa loob (ng terminal yung mg bus),&quot; Orbos said.</p><p>Under MMDA Resolution 16-06, &quot;violators will be issued a Uniform Ordinance Violation Receipt for obstruction and disregarding traffic sign with corresponding penalty or fine.&quot;</p><p>The policy also prohibits provincial buses from plying the stretch of EDSA from Timog Avenue to P. Tuazon in Quezon City every weekday from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. </p>

<p>Provincial bus companies that do not have terminals proper pick-up and drop-off points should "group together and find a common terminal" to comply with the government's "nose-in, nose-out policy."</p>

Provincial bus companies that do not have terminals proper pick-up and drop-off points should "group together and find a common terminal" to comply with the government's "nose-in, nose-out policy."