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Traffic scheme for PUVs
plying Dumaguete ongoing
BY JUANCHO GALLARDE

The Land Transportation Office yesterday started the dry run for north and south-bound public utility vehicles using the new terminal at the Robinsons Department Store compound in Brgy. Calindagan, Dumaguete City, Negros Occidental.

LTO regional operations chief, Macario Getaruelas, said it is high time the city gathers all transport groups in a terminal authorized by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board. He said the dry run is necessary to determine what should be done to ensure the smooth flow of traffic.

LTO Dumaguete chief, Roland Ramos, meanwhile, challenged those opposed to the trial period to muster 500 signatures so it can be stopped. The LTO did not set the duration of the dry run.

Some members of the Dumaguete Sangguniang Panlungsod, led by Vice Mayor Alan Gel Cordova, said the dry run was implemented, only through a resolution of the Traffic Management Council, and without the approval of the SP that, he said, has the mandate to regulate traffic in the city under the Local Government Code.

Negros Oriental Chamber of Commerce and Industry president, Eduard Du, said the business community is fully supportive of the dry run, and Dumaguetnons should be grateful that a private sector invested P25 million for the construction of the terminal as a gift to the city.

He said the city is progressing so fast that a legitimate and spacious terminal should be in place now, unless the Dumaguetnons prefer vehicular congestions and chokepoints everywhere.

Du said the dry run was approved by a vote of 14-1 during the consultation of the leaders of various transport groups, except for Carlito Ingan, president of the Jeepney Operators and Drivers Association Inc.

JODAI has around 200 members from half the multi-cabs and easy-rides of 15 transport groups plying the Dumaguete-Sibulan and vice versa route.

Once the dry run is perfected, the results will be brought to the SP for an amendatory traffic ordinance.

Ramos, meanwhile, reiterated his warning to drivers of tricycles against plying the city limit up to Sibulan in the north, and Bacong and Valencia in the south, as the LTO Code bans tricycles from the national highways.

He said drivers of out-of-line tricycles will be penalized P6,000. The amount of P1,500 will be added every day until the main fine is paid.

The LTO Regional Operations Division, on the other hand, said that, in the first week of November, it had already issued more than 300 Temporary Operators Permits to motorists for various infractions, like driving without licenses or with expired ones, no registration, and with tampered plates.*JG

 

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