Angeles City Councilor Alfie Bonifacio, chair of the Committee on Transportation, is fully committed to legalize approximately more than 1,500 existing “colorum” or unlicensed tricycles in the city before 2022 in a bid to eliminate corruption and for the safety of passengers.
Bonifacio said colorum trikes are even operating without franchises for years and even decades. “This is primarily for the safety of passengers—because if an accident happens it is hard to make colorum drivers accountable,” Bonifacio explained.
He also pointed out this will also eliminate corruption, particularly the possible selling of fake franchises in the city. Bonifacio is likewise exhausting all means to set up designated tricycle terminal stations not only for the benefit of trike drivers but for the welfare of the riding public as well.
There are 3.5 million tricycles in the Philippines, and they’re mostly ridden by adults. Conventional motorbikes with metal passenger sidecars welded to their sides, the trikes are one of the many quirky aspects of public life that delight tourists and, for locals, provide the bulk of public transportation in provincial cities across the country.
Tricycles mainly serve the local roads, supplementing the motorized public transport services. He earlier visited SM City Clark, and areas near Jenra Supermarket in Barangay San Nicolas during ocular inspection of the city’s FEDTODA terminals to resolve these perennial issues in the mass transport industry.
