In a bid to eradicate the use of unsafe buses plying on Philippine roads, a veteran lawmaker said that the government should have a massive re-fleeting program while the mass transit system has yet to be placed.
Rep. Ben Evardone of Eastern Samar province—member of the ruling Liberal Party of President Benigno Aquino 3rd—said that the government should have a massive re-fleeting or modernization program of both Metro Manila and provincial buses to eliminate "rolling coffins, japayukis (imported reconditioned buses) and colorums" while the mass transit system is not yet in place.
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