Task force colorum nets 12 tricycles
ROXAS CITY – The task force tasked to undertake a crack down on colorum tricycles here has apprehended 12 colorum tricycles illegally plying their routes recently.
Said tricycles were impounded at the Roxas City Police Station. Five of them were released after their operators paid P1,500 fine, while seven are still being held by the police.
Earlier, City Mayor Vicente Bermejo said that the task force on anti-colorum tricycles which is composed of several representatives from different organizations will also tap media people to erase doubts that settlements occur between traffic aides and the colorum operators.
Penalties in the said ordinance are the following: 1st offense, P1,500; 2nd offense, P3,000; and 3rd offense, P5,000 and the colorum tricycles will be impounded.
According to Bermejo, the flying squad which is tasked to apprehend colorum tricycles will be composed of representatives from the Tricycle Franchising and Regulatory Unit (TFRU), several tricycle operators and driver’s associations (TODAs), police and several others.
Asked what he will do about 700 colorum operators who wanted to have franchise, Bermejo said that it will depend on the 3,500 franchise holders if they will agree to it.
He said that the anti-colurum ordinance was requested by the 3,500 franchise holders to the city government for their protection.
“Let’s implement first the anti-colorum ordinance before deciding on what to do with the colorum ones,” Bermejo said.