Tagaytay City — The Land Tranportation Office (LTO) has stepped up its campaign against erring public transport operators whose units are plying Aguinaldo Highway from Parañaque City to Cavite.

The campaign was boosted with the participation of LTO-deputized members of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and local and provincial traffic enforcers’ auxiliary units.

These personnel were instructed to strictly enforce rules on road safety and to press the anti-colorum campign, Assistant Secretary Arturo C. Lomibao, LTO chief, announced.

Lomibao’s announcement came after the conclusion of a two-day training and seminar for Cavite and Batangas LTO personnel who will lead the campaign to clear Aguionaldo Highway of public transport vehicles with no safety gadgets such as signal lights and other road-safety devices that ensure safe travel of commuters and motorists.

Lomibao said LTO checkpoints will be set up at strategic areas on Aguinaldo Highway, and a team of road-safety personnel will be posted at the Silang-Aguinaldo Highway junction starting Thursday. Another team will also be posted at the Sta. Rosa-Calamba junction in Laguna.

The teams will man the checkpoints from 4 p.m. to 8 a.m. to ensure that colorum and dilapidated buses, trucks and other vehicles are intercepted.

Passenger tricycles that are banned on the highway will be likewise impounded.

Lumibao said that reports received by his office stated that colorum buses and jeepneys travel along the highway between 4 p.m. and 8 a.m. because there are no LTO enforcers to intercept them and apprehend the drivers for road-safety violations.

Concerned motorists have complained about hauling trucks and passenger buses plying the route in the evening without signal lights and other warning devices that are necessary for night travel.