JVR enforces tricycle ban in South Coastal Road

The local government of Talisay City is asking the police to strictly enforce the ban on tricycles and other slow moving vehicles from using the Cebu South Coastal Road.

Mayor Johnny V. Delos Reyes had asked Alfredo Sipalay, city legal officer to order the Talisay City Police Office chief Supt. Resty Santos and barangay captains of villages along the Cebu South Coastal Road (CSSR) to prevent tricycles, trisikads, bicycles, push carts and other light and slow moving contraptions like animal-drawn carts from using the road.

Aside from slowing the flow of traffic, these low-speed vehicles are also traffic hazards.

Talisay City already has a City Ordinance banning low-speed vehicles from the CSSR but this has not been implemented, said Sipalay.

DILG Memo Circular 2007-01 issued in 2007 bans tricycles and pedicabs to operate “on national highways utilized by four-wheel vehicles greater than four tons and where normal speed exceeds 40 kph.”