Tag: tricycles

DILG: Tricycles, pedicabs still banned on national highways in GCQ, MGCQ areas

  (Eagle News)–Tricycles and pedicabs are still banned on national highways in all general community quarantine and modified general community quarantine areas. Interior Undersecretary and Spokesperson Jonathan Malaya made the clarification on Thursday after conferring with Interior Secretary Eduardo Año, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque, and Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade. “Bago pa man magsimula ang pandemya ng COVID-19 corona ay ipinagbabawal na ito ng batas para na rin sa kaligtasan ng publiko,” he said. He said […]

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During MECQ, tricycles in QC to operate during selected hours

(Eagle News)–Tricycles are allowed to ply Quezon City roads during the modified enhanced community quarantine but only during selected hours. Based on the localized guidelines signed by Mayor Joy Belmonte, apart from tricycles, pedicabs and e-trikes shall be in operation only from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. Not all of these vehicles will be allowed to ply the roads at one time as based on the guidelines, all tricycle associations, pedicab associations and e-trikes shall […]

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Tricycles to start plying Pasig roads on May 18

(Eagle News)–Tricycles can start plying Pasig roads on Monday, May 18. The Pasig City government said this was after the Department of the Interior and Local Government approved the city’s guidelines for the same. Under the guidelines presented by the national government last week, public transportation is still banned in areas under a modified enhanced community quarantine such as Pasig. Tricycles may, however, be used but subject to rules approved by the DILG and the […]

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Pasig allows trikes to ply streets for mobility of health workers, passes anti-hoarding ordinance

(Eagle News)–Pasig on Tuesday, March 17,  allowed tricycles to ply the city to allow for the mobility of health workers. The city also passed an ordinance that bans the hoarding of items amid the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon. In a Tweet, Mayor Vico Sotto said the decision to allow the tricycles was made after “our risk assessment shows that we can’t ban tricycles at this point.” “Health workers need to get to work. Some […]

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House solon files bill requiring public officials to commute once a month

(Eagle News) — A young congressman has filed a bill requiring public officials to commute to and from work at least once every month so they can “empathize with the riding public,” among others. Under House Bill 6195 filed by Aangat Tayo Partylist Rep. Neil Abayon  “elected and appointed public officials and civil servants in national and local government offices with the rank of (or equivalent to) division chief to department secretary” are enjoined to […]

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