MAYOR Eric C. Codilla is considering diverting certain routes of tricycles to get them off the highways. The mayor bared his plan at a meeting with Ormoc Tricylce and Motorcab Operators and Drivers Association as well as multicab drivers to settle the differences between the two groups.
The multicab drivers are demanding that tricycles be prohibited from entering Bagong Buhay. Their president Edgardo Yu said the tricycles have affected their daily income that the number of multicabs plying that route have been reduced from 80 to 50 units. Some of the multicab drivers have shifted to driving tricycles which has more income potential.
For his part, Omtoda President Benedicto Lambunao countered that the reason why they enter Bagong Buhay is because it falls within the free zone as declared by Ordinance No. 56. The ordinance limits the routes of tricycles except in the free zone where all of them are allowed entry. He added that the demand of multicab drivers will cripple their livelihood.
Mayor Codilla sided with Omtoda, saying he will break the law if he grants the multicab drivers’. What he can do, he adds is to implement Memorandum Circular No. 2007-01 s. 2007 of the Department of Interior and Local Government. The memo prohibits tricycles from passing national roads except when there is no alternative access available.
Because of this, Mayor Codilla is mulling to prohibit tricycles bound for Bagong Buhay, Libertad and Lilo-an to use the Ormoc-Merida national road passing San Isidro, Doña Feliza Mejia Subdivision and Cogon. Instead, they will take the unpaved San Isidro-Linao road in going to downtown and back.
Mayor Codilla is also thinking about closing Lilia Ave. in Cogon to tricycles so that tricycles going to Simangan and further up north will have to pass Domingo Veloso St. instead. But he still has to consult his plan to the Land Transportation Office and traffic enforcers. The multicab drivers were pleased with what they heard even if the mayor didn’t heed their request.
(West Leyte Weekly Express issue of July 23-29, 2012)
The multicab drivers are demanding that tricycles be prohibited from entering Bagong Buhay. Their president Edgardo Yu said the tricycles have affected their daily income that the number of multicabs plying that route have been reduced from 80 to 50 units. Some of the multicab drivers have shifted to driving tricycles which has more income potential.
For his part, Omtoda President Benedicto Lambunao countered that the reason why they enter Bagong Buhay is because it falls within the free zone as declared by Ordinance No. 56. The ordinance limits the routes of tricycles except in the free zone where all of them are allowed entry. He added that the demand of multicab drivers will cripple their livelihood.
Mayor Codilla sided with Omtoda, saying he will break the law if he grants the multicab drivers’. What he can do, he adds is to implement Memorandum Circular No. 2007-01 s. 2007 of the Department of Interior and Local Government. The memo prohibits tricycles from passing national roads except when there is no alternative access available.
Because of this, Mayor Codilla is mulling to prohibit tricycles bound for Bagong Buhay, Libertad and Lilo-an to use the Ormoc-Merida national road passing San Isidro, Doña Feliza Mejia Subdivision and Cogon. Instead, they will take the unpaved San Isidro-Linao road in going to downtown and back.
Mayor Codilla is also thinking about closing Lilia Ave. in Cogon to tricycles so that tricycles going to Simangan and further up north will have to pass Domingo Veloso St. instead. But he still has to consult his plan to the Land Transportation Office and traffic enforcers. The multicab drivers were pleased with what they heard even if the mayor didn’t heed their request.
(West Leyte Weekly Express issue of July 23-29, 2012)
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