DCOTT manager Aisa Usop in a report from the City Information Office (CIO) said that the city’s bus transit system recorded an income of P3,532,742 for January 2022, which is over a million pesos more than the P2,493,427 recorded for the same month in 2021.
A similar trend was observed in the succeeding months of the first quarter of 2022.
However, according to Usop, these numbers remain short of the revenues recorded before the pandemic.
“There is an increase when it comes to figures with over 1 million every month, but if we compare these to pre-pandemic numbers, of course it’s not quite there yet,” Usop said.
She said prior to the pandemic, the DCOTT recorded its highest revenue of over P70 million.
Usop said she hopes that it may still surpass the total annual revenue for 2022 of last year.
DCOTT’s revenue from 2021 was over 32 million pesos, which is considerably more than the recorded 23 million pesos in 2020.
"Hopefully, for this year, 2022, if revenues do not hit 70 million, it can still exceed 32 million, the income that we had last year,” she said.
The DCOTT has resumed its regular bus terminal operations with more than 600 bus trips every day.
The minimum public health standards remain strictly observed in the terminal.
Photo from Davao City Overland Transport Terminal
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