⌛ Trikes in Dumaguete

Pedistrianizing the city center and the boulevard will likely be one of the pleasant solutions to minimize fumes in this city .It is nice both you and your husband realize this too . With its narrow roads clogged up with tricycles, don't look pleasant ,real sore in the eye .It's better to walk from one end to the other of Perdices,even down to the boulevard.You can walk faster than those tricycles jammed up. If those responsible of the city traffic control and design for this advancing city,should visit cities in europe ,like belgium, UK,france,netherlands,greece etc it will perhaps give better ideas . Like in many european cities , there's often you can find of sections of city centers being pedetrianized ,planted with smaller trees instead (you don't need acasia trees in middle of Perdices though ).There also many coastal cities with part of their promanades pedestrianized,and people enjoy them, bars and restaurants put tables chairs outside with umbrellas when weather is good.This is possible in the boulevard and on .And we can set around without the fumes of tricycles.

Let's put it Dumaguete is evolving ... let's hope transforming it for the better in the future to a more prettier one ,less polluted than now.

 

Good insights there @pickled newt...

 

It's only a dream to happen for dgte Echir.

 

g'day

its good to look back to remember this early stuff.

 

Mayor Hagedorn of Palawan is making a lot of fuss about his electric trikes. We should have that too...I guess he got his idea from our electric powered EZ ride. Whatever happened to that? I just see it every now and then along city streets.

 

hmmm...
It will take a strong forward thinking leadership to effect anything like that in dumaguete. I have seen little evidence of that so far. But that said, change is inevitable and one way or another dumagute will catch up to the present and future needs of the city.

If the "M" word ever comes, it will force a certain amount of change.

 

Permit me to dissent, please. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Dumaguete JUST AS IT IS!

It was only after I left for a quick weekend visit to Bohol Island and found myself taking an evening stroll in Tagbilaran that I found the difference. I looked up to remark a traffic light for the first time. It was only then that I realized - that there were NONE in Dumaguete.

Hosanna!

On return home, I took the trouble to observe more closely how the traffic actually moves in Dumaguete. Our home surely is the "city of gentle people". Pedestrians, cyclists, motorcycles and cabs all make room for each other. It is an amazing thing both to observe this and to experience it.

Beware of all planners and their selfish, usually myopic, schemes: be they government bureaucrats or private land developers. I currently live in Ottawa, whose region - Canada's National Capital is a planned space. From every perspective it is a horrid failure: and an expensive one at that!

Roads are a self-fulfilling prophesy. Improve them and traffic will increase until it negates that improvement. Leave them alone and they will find their own capacity. Traffic above that level - of whatever kind - will go around or go away.

Let's save Dumaguete from those who would "improve" it - at our expense, naturally! Most of us came here (or are coming here) because of what we already have seen here. This is the attraction of Negros Oriental's beautiful capital.

If you need further convincing, make a short visit to Bayawan and see what poorly conceived "improvement" can do to a small city. Who ever heard of moving City Hall out of town?

 

Well argued, not that That totally agree, Roads may be self fufilling prophecy, but growth is inevitable and will drive the change in infrastructure. If and when a mall plops down in Dumaguete, you will see lots of change for better or worse.

Look at the Bayawan "boulevard" ads an exapmple, a 2 kilometer road to nowwhere, it has not changed Bayawan one bit, why, because as of now no development or additional infrastructure to support change or growth.

 

trike franchise

this is on the paper (sun-star dgte) today:

Mayor wants suspension order on tricycle franchises lifted

VALENCIA Mayor Rodolfo Gonzalez Jr. wants the order, imposed by Malacañang officials freezing the issuance of new tricycle franchises by local government units throughout the country, be lifted.

While Dumaguete City Government officials had complied with the Malacañang as it no longer accepted new franchises, Gonzales describes such as unproductive and contrary to people's welfare.

Gonzalez said as much as he wanted to help those who earn a living by driving a tricycle, he is at mercy of the Malacañang order.

"My hands are tied up to this Malacañang suspension order on issuance of franchises since doing otherwise would subject me to several cases, which will include the administrative charges," said Gonzales.

According to the mayor, once Malacañang heeds his call and the suspension is removed, local legislators of his town could start deliberating on the request of the transport sector to up the trike fares in view of the skyrocketing costs of fuel and spare parts.

Valencia Information Officer Des Tilos explained that Section 2 of Executive Order 712 issued by Malacañang ordered for the immediate review of existing rules and regulations issued by local government units.

The same order directed the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) to "advise local chief executives to suspend the issuance of new tricycle franchises while respecting those that have been issued already."

Tilos said Mayor Gonzalez is hoping the suspension order will be lifted so he can act on a petition filed by a group of drivers in Valencia seeking a fare increase.

The petition was filed by members of the Tricycle Operators Drivers Association of Valencia before the Municipal Council last week.

The same petition also seeks to amend a local ordinance granting franchises and the regulation of the operations of tricycles within the town.

 

all politics is local

Just reaffirming that above is true anywhere. just another example of a politician trying to serve the needs of his constituents. Long term repercussions be damned.

A compromise might be; maintain a freeze on new trikes, give a small fare increase allowance to existing operators, but tie it to upgrading trikes to real emission standards, and phase out all two stroke motorcycles.
once that is accomplished, (yea I know), offer incentives and local grants to develop alternative environmentally less abusive systems. Whether that be electric trikes, or just more efficient ones. It is not like there are not several major universities here to help with the engineering and planning.

I did a calculation a while ago based on I think 2000 trikes, so many kilometers a day etc. now there are 3000. I believe( if i remember correctly) if one could make a trike 10% more fuel efficient it would save using a million or so pesos less gas per annum (spread over the total number of trikes). That much less hydrocarbon emissions could not hurt.