The Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod approved Wednesday a resolution requesting acting Bacolod City Police Director, Senior Supt. Ricardo De la Paz, to direct all his police commanders to help the Bacolod Traffic Authority Office in cleaning the city of colorum motorized tricycles plying its streets to the prejudice of legitimate motorized tricycle operators.
Authored by Councilor Dindo Ramos, the resolution said despite the compliance of operators by motorized tricycles-for-hire of City Ordinance 436, Series of 2007, they did not enjoy the protection of the city government as they are forced to compete for passengers with the drivers of colorum motorized tricyles who continue to ply the routes specified under the ordinance, unhampered. The active participation and strict enforcement of C.O. 436 by the police in all police stations in Bacolod City will definitely put order in the city and help cleanse the streets of illegal tricycle operation and would force all other tricycle operators to secure business permits and franchises for their units to operate under C.O. 436, it said. Meanwhile, a resolution urging the BTAO through the Office of the City Mayor to take immediate preventive measures against accidents, especially along the Circumferential Road in Bacolod City, is being proposed by Councilor El Cid Familiaran. The proposed resolution said that recently, several accidents occurred along the Circumferential Road approaching the Bacolod City Government Center. Although the incidents did not cost lives, nevertheless it is alarming because it usually involves over-loaded 10-wheeler trucks loaded with 30-40 tons of sugarcane which either bump or accidentally skid, trampling over smaller vehicles, it said.*CGS Visayan Daily Star
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