The tricycle fare increase in Tagum City

sept 19

The City Legal Officer Roland Tumanda made the inevitable reason loud and clear to quell murmurs around on the possibillity of holding in abeyance the present P7 motorcycle fare since prices of oil products have been already decreasing over the last two weeks. The increased P10 fare will continue for Tagum City despite the price rollbacks.

Since it’s the Tagum City Federation of Tricycle Transport and Services Cooperative (Tafettrasco) that would be benefited, its act of volunteering to distribute the taripas is a just a natural reaction knowing that tricycle drivers and operators have then been losing when gasoline prices were still about a double of the January price level, as well as due to the unfair competition posed by the colorum habal-habals which have been snatching their passengers in the city’s streets during sunny days.

“Unless the ordinance is amended,” Atty. Tumanda said to belabor a point that the fare could still be decreased to attune with current oil prices.

It’s good that there seems to be a quick price reflex now in the country’s deregulation regime in the oil industry but this positive news about price rollback is so scarce vis-avis the many instances of price increase.

We hope there will also be quick reflex mechanism in our local legislation. It seems to us that on the average it would take us one month and a half to two months before legislation is finally implemented after passing through the local and provincial legislative processes. But we start to count on the date of approval of the ordinance. In particular, the city ordinance on fare increase was unanimously enacted last July 28 and if taripas would be issued today, it takes us a total of one month and 21 days to have it implemented.

However, the delay on this fare increase ordinance seems to occur at the provincial level.

Nevertheless, despite what appear as discreet dilatory processes occurring at the provincial level for this piece of legislation, the city councilors who all voted yes to the ordinance should still be congratulated- for increasing fare at a time of decreasing oil prices. Thanks for the delay.  (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News)

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NEWS: Tagum City firm to implement apple-green colored tricycles

Tagum City legal officer Atty. Roland Tumanda said that the policy of turning the passenger tricycles to carry the city color signature of apple green stands firm, without which there will be no no renewal of permits for non-complying tricycle operators.

In an interview, Atty. Tumanda bared that the city will be completing its implementation of the uniform apple green policy for the tricycles until the end of this year from last May’s start.

He said that the color policy falls within the overall city tourism thrust of Mayor Rey Chiong Uy.

“Our city’s logo has dominant apple green color, while it is also clear and not straining to the eyes,” the city administrator remarked to the city’s choice of color for the bodies of passenger tricycles plying the city’s streets and roads.

In the same interview, Tumanda bared that the next city government’s policy to be implemented for the passengers motorcycles would be the use of the four-stroke engines in compliance with the Clean Air Act.

He said this will start next year and will be completed until 2010 during the last year of the present term of Mayor Uy.

At present, passenger tricycles are usually using the two-stroke engines which the Clean Air law seeks to eliminate

because of pollution issues.

Accordingly, two-stroke engines powered by gasoline are accordingly more polluting as they release more hazardous particulate matter than the cleaner four-stroke engines.(Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News) http://ruralurbanews.blogspot.com

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