| Tricycle
drivers and operators here in the city are given immediate relief of the weekly
increases in the price of fuel as city lawmakers yesterday granted a P1 increase
on the minimum fare.
City
councilor Atty. Nerio Zamora II, chair of the SP committee on public utilities,
sponsored a resolution during yesterday's Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) regular
session which granted provisional authority for cab drivers and operators to collect
an additional P1 on the basic fare rate.
From
the minimum fare of P6, drivers can now collect P7 with the usual charges on the
succeeding kilometres as mandated under the existing Tricycle Fare and Transportation
Code of the city.
| | | "This
is just a provisional authority granted to our tricycle drivers and operators
as our response to the soaring prices of gasoline," Zamora clarified of the
resolution which was adopted en masse by the SP.
Zamora
said he is drafting revisions to the existing transportation code which will be
taken up during the SP regular session next week.
The
proposed amendment on the fare rate will then be presented in a public hearing,
Zamora concluded. | | 
