Talisay City Sangguniang Panlungsod members Jose Maria Astorga Sr. and Charles Benedict Lacson recently requested the Sangguniang Panglungsod of Bacolod City to exempt jeepneys plying the Talisay-Bacolod route covered under the City Ordinance No. 461, or the Establishment of the North Bound Terminal for buses and public utility vehicles plying the northbound route.

In their letter to the Bacolod SP, dated July 17, they said that it will kill their transport industry and result in the loss of income of 500 drivers plying this route, and their families.

The expenses of students, employees and business people will also be doubled if Talisay jeepneys will not be exempted from the ordinance, they said.

Most of the residents of Talisay who will be affected are the spill-over from Bacolod City where many are employed and some are still even registered voters of Bacolod, the press release said.*

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