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AFP, PNP offer more free ECQ rides to APORs in select routes

By Christopher Lloyd Caliwan

August 10, 2021, 9:55 am

<p><strong>FREE RIDE.</strong> A police vehicle is used to transport authorized persons outside of residence (APORs) in Marikina City in this undated photo. The police and military are offering free rides for APORs in select routes for the entire enhanced community quarantine period in Metro Manila and nearby provinces. <em>(Contributed photo)</em></p>

FREE RIDE. A police vehicle is used to transport authorized persons outside of residence (APORs) in Marikina City in this undated photo. The police and military are offering free rides for APORs in select routes for the entire enhanced community quarantine period in Metro Manila and nearby provinces. (Contributed photo)

MANILA – The police and military are offering free rides for authorized persons outside of residence (APORs) in select routes for the entire enhanced community quarantine period in Metro Manila and nearby provinces.

The Philippine National Police's Libreng Sakay program can be availed in 10 routes daily from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

“This is the PNP’s way of reaching out to citizens by providing mobility and other extended services to APOR so that they could attend to their work with convenience even while the ECQ is in effect,” PNP chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar said Tuesday.

The routes are:

a. Central Terminal (Manila City Hall) to Quezon Avenue MRT 3 and vice-versa;

b. Camp Crame to “Tungko” San Jose del Monte, Bulacan (via Commonwealth Avenue) and vice-versa;

c. Camp Crame to Rodriguez, Rizal (via Litex) and vice-versa;

d. Camp Crame to Taytay (via Ortigas) and vice-versa;

e. Camp Crame to Meycauayan, Bulacan (via MacArthur Highway) and vice versa;

f. Camp Crame to Antipolo City and vice-versa;

g. Pasay to Monumento (Edsa) northbound and vice-versa;

h. Monumento to Pasay Taft (Edsa) southbound and vice-versa;

i. Camp Crame to Zapote, Bacoor and vice-versa; and

j. Camp Crame to Novaliches and vice-versa

Eleazar said health and safety protocols are strictly observed in its free transportation program. Passengers are also provided with face masks, bottled waters and useful information materials as supplies allow.

Meantime, the Armed Forces of the Philippines is adding five more military trucks for use in the free rides program.

These trucks will augment the operation of the four RRCG buses earlier deployed in major routes of SM Fairview to Quezon Avenue via Commonwealth (vice versa); Gil Puyat LRT1 to Quezon Avenue via Taft Avenue and España (vice versa); and SM Masinag to Cubao MRT via Marcos Highway (vice versa).

The military trucks will service the 14-kilometer SM Taytay to Ortigas Center route (vice versa). (with Priam Nepomuceno/PNA)

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