QuestionsQuestions (LTFRB MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 2000-017)
It cites Executive Order No. 273, adopting the Philippine Plan for Gender-Responsive Development (1995–2025), and it also refers to LTFRB Memorandum Circular No. 88-0024 on the requirement that bus operators provide adequate, safe, and clean bus terminals.
Provincial bus operators are required to provide/designate a priority lane and to install a diaper-changing table inside the women’s restrooms within the bus terminals.
The circular requires priority lanes specifically for persons with special needs—specifically mothers traveling with small children and persons with physical disabilities.
It must be provided/designated in provincial bus operators’ terminals, stations, and sub-stations.
A diaper-changing table must be installed inside the women’s restrooms within the bus terminals.
It frames the diaper-changing table as part of gender-responsive and child-friendly accommodations for female passengers traveling with babies.
They are given up to six (6) months from the effectivity of the circular to implement and fully comply.
It takes effect fifteen (15) days after the filing of three (3) copies with the U.P. Law Center, consistent with Presidential Memorandum Circular No. 11 dated 09 October 1992.
It requires filing of three (3) copies with the U.P. Law Center before the circular’s effectivity, with effectivity after a specified period.
The LTFRB GAD (Gender and Development) Focal Point representatives conduct periodic inspections of terminals, stations, and sub-stations.
The Board will subject non-complying operators to administrative sanctions.
They serve as inspectors to check compliance of priority lanes and diaper-changing tables in covered facilities.
By citing Executive Order No. 273 and requiring specific terminal accommodations (priority lanes for mothers with small children and persons with disabilities, and diaper-changing tables) to operationalize gender-responsive development goals.
It builds upon earlier rules requiring adequate, safe, and clean bus terminals by adding specific gender-responsive measures (priority lanes and diaper-changing tables).
The operator may be found non-compliant during inspection and may be subjected to administrative sanctions by the LTFRB Board.