More than 59,000 passengers passed through the Parañaque Integrated Terminal Exchange (PITX) on Friday morning, October 31, a day before All Saints’ Day.
As of 8 a.m., PITX Senior Corporate Affairs Officer Kolyn Calbasa said the terminal recorded 59,243 passengers, including those arriving and departing from Metro Manila. Calbasa told the Inquirer that the terminal has sufficient trips to accommodate all passengers during this year’s Undas travel rush.
‘If there are ever challenges in supply, we have the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) on site to issue special permits for additional buses,’ she said in Filipino.
From October 27 to 30, PITX recorded a total of 749,233 passengers-188,624 on October 27; 181,090 on October 28; 185,051 on October 29; and 194,468 on October 30. Daily traffic during this period was high compared to the usual 160,000 passengers on a regular day. Calbasa said most trips this Undas were bound for the Bicol Region, followed by Laguna-Batangas-Quezon, northern Luzon provinces, Occidental and Oriental Mindoro, and the Visayas-Mindanao regions.
Around 2.1 million passengers are expected to pass through PITX from October 27 to November 3, Calbasa added.