By Gina Dizon
SAGADA, Mountain Province – A company is set
to start trips to this tourist town from Manila and vice versa I time for the
lenten season and summer but jeepney drivers here said passengers should embark
in the capital town of Bontoc so they will ride their jeeps when they go to
Sagada.
Trips from Manila were stopped months ago
after a bus fell down a ravine in the capital town of Bontoc this province
wherein scores of people died.
This, time, for passengers going to
Manila from Sagada and vice versa via the Bontoc-Banaue
route, CODA bus lines will offer afternoon trips at 2:30 p.m. from Sagada
to Manila and an 8 a.m. trip from Manila to Sagada.
In Baguio City, Mountain Province Rep.
MaximoDalog affirmed this saying resumption of trips would benefit the province
in terms of tourism growth.
He said this was timely considering that the
Lang-ay Festival in the capital town of Bontoc would start April 10 to coincide
with celebration of the province’s foundation anniversary.
Protest however was lodged by Sagada
Operators and Drivers Association (at the Land Franchising and Regulatory
Board against CODA’s covered trip to Sagada citing economic dislocation.
SODA wants CODA’s Manila to Sagada
and vice versa trips have their loading and unloading of passengers
in Bontoc and not in Sagada.
SODA’s petition signed by its members and
some 200 residents of Sagada reached the regional LTFRB.
It was learned that said petition was
forwarded to LTFRB central office.
SODA with some 40 driver-operator members
have been plying the Sagada-Bontoc route for years from 6
a.m. to 1 p.m. and Bontoc-Sagada from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
CODA lines Corp. (formerly KMS) is set to
start trips from Manila to Sagada at 8 p.m., Manila to Bontoc at
8:30 p.m., Manila to Ifugao at 8:30 p.m., Sagada to Manila at 2:30 p.m., Bontoc
to Manila at 3:30, Ifugao to Manila at 6 p.m., Baguio to Maddela at 8:30
p.m., Baguio to Kiangan at 9 p.m., Baguio to Banaue at 9:30 p.m., Maddela
to Baguio at 4 p.m., Kiangan to Baguio at 7 p.m. and Banaue to Baguio at 6 p.m.
Coda lines’ trip schedules intends
to open April this year.
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