EARLIER this week, two of the country's motorcycle taxi services, Angkas and Move It, were summoned by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) to explain their apparent breach of the cap on the number of riders allowed under the Department of Transportation's (DOTr) "motorcycle taxi pilot study," which is being led by the LTFRB. The issue is a controversy that is entirely of the government's own manufacture and simply demonstrates once again that the LTFRB, and by extension the DOTr, has yet to grasp that carrying out the mandate to develop and regulate transportation is a public service rather than an administrative duty.

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