LIVE: Senate hearing on emergency powers vs traffic woes – Day 2
MANILA, Philippines — The Senate Committee on Public Services is set to resume its hearings on the proposed granting of emergency powers to President Rodrigo Duterte to resolve traffic congestion.
Senate panel chair Sen. Grace Poe will lead the second day of inquiry scheduled 10 a.m. at the Senate Hall.
Poe earlier asked the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to present detailed plans and projects to solve the transportation crisis gripping the metropolis and other urban areas before the senators. DOTr, meanwhile, officially took over the traffic management last Tuesday.
“The bottleneck will not be in the Senate because we will conduct hearings consistently. But when we asked the Department of Transportation—give us already, as early as now, while we are discussing the problems in the hearings—what your proposed projects are. There’s none yet. Kahit na [sana] di pa kumpleto [ang mga plano],” Poe told a forum in Manila.
Aside from government agencies concerned, Poe also invited some commuters to share their sentiments before the Senate.
The first hearing on the proposed emergency powers was held last August 10 where the Senate committee chair stressed that the proposal must be Freedom of Information-compliant.
Watch the hearing LIVE starting 10 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016:
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