The Department of Transportation has announced the opening of six more additional bus routes to further service the requirements of commuters in and around Metro Manila. The DOTr also provided the corresponding fare matrix for these bus routes.

Routes that will begin service on June 16, 2020:

• Route 14 (Ayala-Alabang)
• Route 15 (Ayala-Biñan)
• Route 27 (PITX-Trece Martires)

For June 18, 2020:

• Route 23 (PITX-Sucat)
• Route 26 (PITX-Naic)
• Route 30 (PITX-Cavite City)

The following routes were earlier opened to service commuters in and around Metro Manila:

• Portion of Route E (EDSA Carousel)
  *to augment MRT-3/partial operational
• Route 1 (Monumento-Balagtas)
• Route 2 (Monumento – PITX)
• Route 3 (Monumento-Valenzuela Gateway Complex)
• Route 4 (North EDSA-Fairview)
• Route 5 (Quezon Avenue-Angat)
• Route 6 (Quezon Ave.-EDSA Taft Ave.)
• Route 7 (Quezon Avenue-Montalban)
• Route 8 (Cubao-Montalban)
• Route 9 (Cubao-Antipolo)
  *to augment LRT-2
• Route 11 (Gilmore-Taytay)
• Route 13 (Buendia-BGC)
• Route 16 (Ayala Ave.-FTI)
• Route 17 (Monumento-EDSA Taft)
  *to augment LRT-1
• Route 18 (PITX-NAIA Loop)
• Route 21 (Monumento-San Jose Del Monte)
• Route 24 (PITX-Alabang)
• Route 25 (BGC-Alabang)
• Route 28 (PITX-Dasmariñas)
• Route 29 (PITX – General Mariano Alvarez)

The sequential opening of bus routes is based on the gradual, calibrated, and in phases approach the government is using to bring back public transportation to commuters.

The Transportation Deoartment said the daily adjustment being done by the government is to ensure service returns to our commuters without sacrificing their health and safety.

This is in compliance with the order of the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) and DOTr to slowly return the operation of public transportation.

The LTFRB reminded operators and drivers of PUB’s to strictly follow the protocols enumerated in MC 2020-018 to avoid spreading COVID-19. These include the wearing of face masks and gloves, cleaning of bus units before and after every travel, the installation non-permeable and transparent metrials as dividers and compliance with passenger seating capacity based on guidelines fromATF-EID and the DOTr.

Here are the routes and gate matrix of public buses servicing Metro Manila and suburbs: