⌛ Complaint dumaguete airport

Annabelle and I are still PO'd on this one. If this ever happens again, she threatens to strip off her long(er) pants in the street and switch with the driver's garment.

I'm surprised that some of you choose to defend this ridiculous policy.

 

Just bring your skateboard! :D

 

It's all part of local tourism's drive to upgrade the hospitality service of the front-liners, especially the tricycle drivers. Look presentable and professional, not like you're in your extended living room. Clearly this does not apply to tourists and traveling locals. Now these tricycle drivers are aware of the regulations and are constantly required to attend seminars which also explains the importance of common courtesies. Do they bother to apply what they learned? Generally, no. But the system can only work if rules are implemented. The guard was implementing it by disallowing the tricycle to enter. The tricycle driver was not. So the next time you hail a cab, choose a trike driver who is following regulations.

 

Lmao

This is the funniest thing I've read on this forum in a real long time....It ought to be on the humor thread...:D

 

Oh yeah!

I had this experience also about a year ago, and choose to laugh at it. As with so many other things in Dumaguete and the Philippines generally, the intensions might be good, but its reeeaaally not thought through

As my girlfriend said, when I told her about the incidence: "Its very idiot".

And thats exactly what it is. Its very idiot to inconvenience a passenger by having to walk from the gate to the departure hall, just because the driver - not the passenger - has failed to comply with a dresscode.

The obvious solution - but presumably this is far to complicated for Dumaguete authorities - would be to allow the driver to drop of this passenger at the terminal but not allow him to wait inside the airport to pick up another passenger.

And if this is not punishment enough, maybe even give him a small fine, when he leave the airport inappropriately dressed. I am sure, that this would catch the attention of most pedicap drivers :D

As it is now, the passenger is the one who is punished for a fault committed by the driver, and that indeed is very idiot.

Should it happen to me again, I would react by telling the driver something like this:

"Ok, we agreed about a price of 100 peso. But since you can not take me all the way to the terminal, bacause you failed to comply with the dress code, the price will now be 50 peso instead."

This will then cause the drivers face to look like a lemon. But as others has stated already, the pedicap drivers know about this rule. So the honest reaction from them would be to decline a passerger, who is going to the airport, if they know, that they are not properly dressed to go inside the airport.

So in fact they are actually taking advantage of the passengers by promising to drive them to the airport, even though they know - or at least should know - that they will not be allowed to go inside the airport.

"Sorry sir sorry mam, but please find another tricycle, because I am not allowed to go inside the airport". That would be the honest answer from the inappropriately dressed pedicap drivers.

But when have you ever heard about a pedicap driver saying no to a trip, and particularly a trip with a tourist, who is supposed to pay 2-3 times as much as the locals?

It never happens. Even the driver don`t understand, where the passenger want to go, he will just pretend to understand and set of in a random direction :D

Oh yeah. How I miss my early days in Dumaguete, where I did not have my own vehicle and had to travel with the tricycles all the time. Or maybe not :p

 

P.S. If Dumaguete authorities really wanted to upgrade the city a bit, maybe it would be a better idea to introduce metered taxies in Dumaguete as a replacement for some of the tricycles, rather than just a dress code for the tricycle drivers.

They have metered taxis in Cebu, Bacolod, Cagayan de Oro and Butuan. Well in fact almost any city in the Philippines, which has a population similar to or larger than the one in Dumaguete.

I am sure, that there would be a market for this in Dumaguete also, if it was introduced. And it would help to reduce air polution and speed up the trafic flow, by getting some of the tricycles of the road.

I presume it can only be because of local politics, that metered taxis have not been introduced in Dumaguete many years ago already.

 

There are a few taxix in Dumaguete and there will be more in the future but you cannot expect that politicians will take away the income from so many pedicabdrivers just for the sake of some tourists. Most Filippino's in Dumaguete find it ok the way it is now.
But who remember the minicabs in Cebu? In one year they where all fased out and replaced by regular taxis.

 

Yes there are a few taxis in Dumaguete, but there are not metered and hence very expensive.

Of course is it not realistical to face out tricycles completely in Dumaguete, and it is probably not desirable either all in all.

However I must object strongly to the statement, that a limitation in the amount of tricycles would only "be for the sake of a few turists" or that "most people living in Dumaguete are happy with the way things are".

The air in central Dumaguete is heavily poluted because of the tricycles, and all major roads in and around Dumaguete are clogged because of them. And this is to the detriment not only of turists but of everybody, who live in Dumaguete.

I know a lot of filipinos in Dumaguete, who are as tired of the large number of tricycles, as I am. In fact I would guess, that practically anyone, who have their own motorcycle, multicap, car or whatever, would be happy to see less tricycles on the roads in and around Dumaguete.

 

P.S. If the number of tricycles in Dumagute was reduced, it wouldn`t be enough to replace them with metered taxis. The replacement for many of the tricycles would need to be more jeepneys or small busses, or even walking around town.

The reason tricycles are so popular is not only, that they are cheap, but also that pinoys don´t like to walk - not even to get to the bus stop, which is 50 meters away

 

Those who have their own transportation like less public transportation and those who don't have their own transportation want lesser private vehicles.
We are all broad minded aren't we?