Truck ban exemptions bared; slaughterhouse park rules set

BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Mauricio Domogan issued Administrative Order No. 50, series of 2017 exempting trucks loaded with perishable goods, water delivery trucks and those containing mine ore of large-scale mining companies from new truck ban ordinance in the city.

            Domogan met with La Trinidad Mayor Romeo Salda, officials of vegetable and cutflower truckers and traders, owners of water delivery companies and lawyer Eduardo M. Aratas of the Philex Mining corporation to discuss extent of exemption granted to them while awaiting the amendments to be introduced by the local legislative body to the pertinent provisions of the ordinance.

            Under the mayor’s order, a maximum of 30 trucks loaded with perishable agricultural products bearing the duly authorized stickers shall be exempted daily from the coverage of the provisions of Ordinance No. 05, series of 2017.

            A maximum of 10 trucks loaded with cutflowers will be exempted from the coverage of the same ordinance on Thursdays to Saturdays while a maximum of seven trucks with a similar load will be exempted from the truck ban on Sundays to Wednesdays.

            On the other hand, water delivery trucks will be exempted from the coverage of the truck ban but owners of water delivery companies should coordinate with their clients to arrange the schedule of delivery beyond the prescribed truck ban.

            A maximum of seven trucks of Philex Mining Corporation will be exempted from the coverage of the truck ban in the morning while a maximum of seven trucks of the same company will also be exempted from the coverage of the truck ban in the afternoon.

            The city government, in coordination with the concerned associations of truckers and traders and the Baguio City Police Office–Traffic Management Branch shall issue 210 transferrable stickers specifically to the vegetable truckers for the use of the group in determining the trucks that will avail of the exemption from Mondays to Sundays.

            The mayor’s order shall take effect after the City Council shall have confirmed the same after it was forwarded to the local legislative body for immediate action.

The stickers that will be used to the concerned group of truckers will be issued to the officials of the organization which will be in charge of disposing the transferrable stickers to their members who will be exempted from the truck ban.

This, as the city council approved on first reading a proposed ordinance regulating parking of motor vehicles at Sto Nino Slaughterhouse compound barangay to prevent congestion in busy streets of the barangay.

            The ordinance authored by Councilor Leandro B. Yangot, Jr. identified several areas within the barangay as potential parking areas wherein parking fees shall be collected and accrue to the local government and the barangay.

            The identified parking areas in the said barangay are the covered area bounded by Magsaysay Avenue and Balajadja St. fronting the existing bus terminal and flea market and the former Times Transit terminal, including its back portion.

            Under the pertinent provisions of the ordinance, the rates for these pay parking areas shall be P60 for the first two hours and additional P10 for each succeeding hour for trucks.

Buses will be charged P50 for the first two hours and P10 for each succeeding hour; P20 for the first two hours and P10 for each succeeding hour for vans, pickups, jeepneys, cars and others of similar capacity vehicles; P10 for the first two hours and P5 for each succeeding hour for motorcycles and a flat rate of P200 for overnight parking. -- Dexter A. see