THE Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) on Sunday said it will respect the decision of a Mandaluyong City court allowing a motorcycle ride-hailing app to resume operations.
“We will abide by the ruling of the court,” MMDA General Manager Jose Arturo Garcia said after the Mandaluyong regional trial court granted the writ of preliminary injunction to Angkas on September 6. The court also prohibited the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board, the Department of Transportation and anyone acting on behalf of these agencies, from interfering in Angkas’s operations.
The court specifically prohibited employees of these agencies from “apprehending Angkas bikers in legitimate pursuit of work and from performing any acts that will impede, obstruct, frustrate or defeat Angkas’s pursuit of its lawful business and trade.”