AC cracks down on colorum, private trikes

ANGELES CITY – Beginning next week, the city government will start cracking down on unmarked colorum and private tricycles plying the roads here.

This developed after complaints mounted against numerous unmarked tricycles (without plate and body numbers) plying the streets.

During a press conference here on Wednesday, Mayor Ed Pamintuan directed the city’s traffic czar Dan Concepcion to go after unmarked tricycles.

“In the meantime (while still applying for permits and licenses), don’t allow them to ply the streets,” Pamintuan said.

“We should prevent them from plying their routes because it is really illegal,” the mayor stressed.

Concepcion said he will immediately coordinate the mayor’s directive to the Traffic Board and the city’s traffic enforcers.

He said conduction stickers will be painted on the body of the vehicles to serve as temporary identification marks while the owners are still applying for permits from the city government or from the Land Transportation Office (LTO).

The mayor said tricycles without identifying marks will be apprehended even if they are privately owned. In case of road accidents, unmarked tricycles often run away and escape liabilities, he noted.

The mayor was prompted to order the apprehension of unmarked tricycles after a photo appeared in Punto! showing an unmarked overloaded tricycle plying Gueco Avenue, a major thoroughfare.

“I will bring a copy of this newspaper to the Traffic Board,” Pamintuan said.

The mayor said he observed that most of the unmarked tricycles plying the streets are not new and some are a decade old but they remain unregistered up to now.

“I call on the citizenry to cooperate and respect the law for the benefit of the general public,” Pamintuan said.