LUBAO, Pampanga—Town and barangay officials here, heeding the call of Pampanga Gov. Dennis Pineda, will mobilize 44 barangay patrol vehicles on Monday to offer free ride for employees returning to work.
Mayor Esmeralda G. Pineda on Sunday held a meeting with the town’s Covid-19 monitoring and response team to set the schedules and routes of the free ride.
Route 1 vehicles will pickup passengers from identified cluster terminals, pass through the Jose Abad Santos Avenue and drop them off at the Salilungan Complex in Barangay San Juan in the capital, City of San Fernando.
The clusters of barangays for Route 1 are:
TERMINAL : CONCEPCION
SAN MATIAS
CONCEPCION
SAN JOSE APUNAN
STO. DOMINGO
DAU 1st
DAU 2nd
TERMINAL : STA. CRUZ
STA. CRUZ
STA. TEREZA 1st
SAN JOSE GUMI
SAN PABLO 1st
SAN PABLO 2nd
STA. RITA
DELA PAZ
TERMINAL : PASBUL
SAN NICOLAS 1st
SAN ANTONIO
SAN VICENTE
SAN MIGUEL
SAN FRANCISCO
TERMINAL : SAN ROQUE ARBOL
SAN ROQUE ARBOL
CALANGAIN
BALANTACAN
SAN PEDRO SAUG
SAN PEDRO PALCARANGAN
TERMINAL : MI-CRUZ
SAN AGUSTIN
STA. CATALINA
DEL CARMEN
REMEDIOS
TERMINAL : SAN ISIDRO
SAN ISIDRO
STO. NIÑO
LOURDES
SANTIAGO
BARUYA
PRADO SIONGCO
Route 2 will load passengers at the New Municipal Hall complex in Sta. Catalina, this town, then proceed to downtown City of San Fernando. The route will pass through the poblacion area of Guagua town.
TERMINAL : NEW MUNICIPAL HALL
STA. BARBARA
SAN JUAN
STA. LUCIA
STO. TOMAS
STA. MONICA
SAN NICOLAS 1st
Both routes will be open from 6 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m.
Only a worker who can present his company ID or certificate of employment, and is wearing a facemask will be allowed to board the vehicles, Mayor Pineda said.
The mayor reminded the drivers of the barangay patrol service to help maintain social distancing and observe proper hygienic practices of all passengers inside the vehicles.
Mayor Pineda also warned them not to impose or accept payments of any kind from the employees who will avail of the free ride.
“Tinutulungan natin sila sa abot ng ating makakaya kaya sana huwag natin silang hihingan ng anumang kapalit sa serbisyong ibibigay natin,” the mayor said.
She also thanked Gov. Pineda for the assistance in mobilizing the barangays for the free ride for the employees who have returned to work as soon as Pampanga was put under a modified enhanced community quarantine.