Fare ordinance referred to committee
In what appears as another disinterested move, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan on Monday in its session referred to a committee the Tagum City Ordinance No. 305 which enacted the increase of the tricycle fare from P7 to P10.
On prerogative of Vice Gov. Victorio Suaybaguio, the city government’s fare increase measure was referred to the SP’s committee on laws, resolutions and ordinances chaired by Boardmember Artemio San Juan.
But as soon as the vice governor had referred it, a few of the SP secretariat employees at the gallery were overheard complaining about the measure as “sus kadako ra kaayo” (too big an increase).
Last week, Boardmember Ely Dacalus, chair of the committee on utilities, reckoned that the measure, which approved last July 28, would be put for the first reading supposedly yesterday.
The said fare ordinance was earlier sought by tricycles drivers and operators who have been suffering great losses and difficulties in sustaining their families as the price of gasoline had already more than doubled since January.
They also complained of the unfair competition posed by the thousands of colorum habal-habal single motorcycles which are swooping down their passengers like hawks in the city’s streets.
Under the ordinance, the students, senior citizens and differently-abled persons would however only pay P8 or an increase of P1 for a city-limit ride. (Cha Monforte/Rural Urban News)
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