Abusive Trike Drivers in Urdaneta City

Tricycle drivers in Urdaneta City are no different to their counterparts in Dagupan City.

They billed with impunity a commuter even the distance of their service is less than a kilometer.

 A media man is willing to file a complaint so it can serve as deterrence to other abusive drivers in that burgeoning city.

He told me he rode a trike near Nepo Mall for Jollibee .

The driver billed him P20.

He said the seemingly ignorant POSO (Public Order & Safety Office) officer even sided with the abusive driver who has all the gall and confidence to agree with the passenger to accompany him to report his crime. The officer said the amount was above board if there was a stipulation between the driver and the passenger.

 But there was none.

“It is insane to bill P20 for a distance that was only half –a-kilometer. There should be an ordinance that should detail how much one should bill a passenger, and what corresponding penalties one should be meted,” the disgusted opinion-writer said.

Mayor Gregorio “Bobom” Amadeo E. Perez IV and Vice Mayor Onofre C. Gorospe could post at the blog of yours truly located at the bottom of this column when they want to invite the media man so he could formalize a complaint against this erring driver.

 The writer has the city number of the trike and the name of the POSO enforcer.

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Abuses of trike drivers in Urdanata should be stopped!

Let’s not wait that what happened in Dagupan City ensue there.

In the recent official visit of the vice mayor of a town in Iloilo, he was  excessively mulcted to pay P150 from Victory Liner to neighboing Lenox Hotel (less than half-a-kilometer in Distance) by  the proliferating “broad daylight” robbers in the Bangus City that got the goat of Mayor Benjie S. Lim.

Woe to the visitors that visit that city. They do not know the tricks to be spared by these abuses. The tricks one should know if they are in Dagupan:

1) Do not ask how much you are willing to shell; 2) Read how much bill you are going to pay at the fare matrix posted at the inside front mirror; and 3) Pretend that you are a wary city dweller even if you hailed from the mountain of Timbukto in Ifugao.

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A president of an organization in Pangasinan should still be learning the rope what makes a successful leader.

He should learn what made Mayors Nani Braganza and Lim of the cities Alaminos and Dagupan, the Mancalalays of Calasiao, and the De Venecias.

They are not only leaders who steer the progress of their constituents; they are leaders who intercede for their constituents who are in distress like hospitalization.

As what I heard, there is a snowballing disillusionment to this leader’s style.

They said even with issues that haunt the past presidents, they were there extending a help or two by tapping some selfless friends.

(You can read my previous columns at http://dagupenosnews.blogspot.com/)