City Council to tackle Mandaue's request today

CEBU, Philippines – The Cebu City Council will tackle today the request of Mandaue City officials to allow Mandaue-bound passenger jeepneys to ply the city's major thoroughfares.

The members of the Mandaue City Council recently passed a resolution asking Mayor Michael Rama, through the Cebu City Council, to suspend the implementation of City Ordinance 1837 that bans inter-city PUJs.

Since the ordinance's enactment in 2000, Mandaue City-bound PUJs ignored the provisions of the ordinance and insisted to ply within M.J. Cuenco Avenue, General Maxilum Avenue to Fuente Osmeña and then Osmeña Boulevard going to Plaza Independencia.

The City Traffic Operations Management (CITOM) already stopped enforcing the ordinance even if it has no power to suspend its implementation.

The FREEMAN yesterday observed that a CITOM enforcer allows several Mandaue-bound PUJs to pick up passengers within Osmeña Boulevard in front of the Department of Health (DOH)-7 regional office.

"Gipahunong pa man ang pagpadakop sa mga Mandaue-bound PUJ's. Pwede pa sila makapamasahero dinhi sa syudad," the enforcer told The FREEMAN. (FREEMAN)