ANGELES CITY Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan has announced new ordinances banning walking funeral corteges along major roads, as well as fixed tricycle fares regardless of nationality.
“There have been too many complaints about tricycles taking advantage of our growing number of tourists and we can’t go on like this,” Pamintuan said in a press briefing.
This, even as Amos Rivera, chair of the transportation committee of the city council, said an ordinance banning walking during funeral processions along major thoroughfares in this city has taken effect.
“We sympathize with bereaved families, but it wouldn’t help if other motorists stalled in traffic curse instead of pray for the dead,” Rivera said. Only funeral corteges with vehicles will be allowed so that traffic will not be stalled. Those who insist on walking processions can negotiate only the minor roads, he added.
Rivera noted, however, that his committee has coordinated with the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) for transportation subsidy for indigent bereaved families.
On the other hand, Pamintuan also said that in effect is an ordinance requiring tricycle operators to post in their cabs a “fixed rates matrix” imposing a minimum P25 per kilometer rate per trip, regardless of the number of passengers.
“This will stop the exploitation of our tourists who are charged incredible rates by some tricycle drivers,” he said.
Violators of the fixed rates would be fined up to P1,000.
