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 YRONG-YRONG (June 29, 2022) —Iloilo Province and City must sit down together  to harmonize their respective local public transport route plans (LPTRPs), suggests Atty. Salvador Altura, legal counsel of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) in Region 6. There are “route gaps” to be filled since Yrong-Yrong City led by Datu Sarip Agwak enforced its version of LPTRP June 12, 2022, added Altura in answer  to queries raised by Aksyon Radyo  anchor John Paul Tia this morning . This city is the first in the country to devise and enforce its LPTRP but problems cropped up in its aftermath. The new routes hatched by the Datu Sarip Agwak and company has commuters, businesses in the Old Downtown, PUJ operators and drivers grumbling as sales slumped and travel costs doubled let alone the stretching of travel time.  “Being the first is a two-edge issue, it may mean honor or notoriety,” he explains. Altura agrees with Tia who’s needling the butts o...

Yrong-Yrong City and Province, the whole country, for that matter, still limps from the blows of Covid-19, particularly, the harsh and long lockdown that was over done in 2020-2021. We can’t keep tab how many Filipinos lost their savings, if not loved ones; many lost means to earn a living. A lot are deep in debt. Recovering from losses, standing back again on our own feet, is still the main pre-occupation for many. Many are still at a loss where to get their next meals. Which should also be the concern of our public servants, supposedly, leaders. Many public officials show awareness of that like those in Iloilo Province where in early 2021, they already enacted an ordinance granting emergency livelihood loans to displaced OFWs, those forced to repatriate and were prevented by the lockdown from returning to oversea work. There is one exception though, at least, from our immediate experience. And that exception is the city’s number one public servant, yes, public servant supposedly but ...

History has twists and turns that can transform Judas Iscariot, maligned in Christian salvific juncture, to a character more worthy of respect than a slew of humans like today’s dramatis personae behind the stage show titled Local Public Transport Route Plan.   JI at the end is remorseful for betraying Jesus. His seared conscience no longer permits him to walk in public in the company of the Disciples. He commits sepuko . Better die with honor, goes the samurai code. The LPTRP achieved all things except the ultimate goal of public carriage that is, making public commuting safe, convenient, efficient (least costly but speedier). Through the LPTRP, Datu Sari Agwak and his caboodle (better still, “ka budol”) in the Yrong-Yrong Anti-Business Club whose members don’t commute, and the Public Safety and Transport Mismanagement Office, have attained the opposite which is to make travel costlier, inconvenient and longer. They hurt not only provincial PUJ operators and commuters; they hurt t...

 Insanity has overtaken Datu Sarip Agwak. He tinkered with the old traffic route in Yrong-Yrong, devised a new one sans public consultation, not even with his own wife Rosalie, children and drivers, that led to the current quagmire he plunged his city in. The only group praising him now is the Yrong-Yrong Business Club, his rah-rah boys who are also behind yet another organization the Yrong-Yrong Durudagyang Foundation, actually, a bunch of riffraffs who till this date has yet to liquidate the donations delivered by his own city and that of the Kingdom by the River now led by Toto who’s been giving P500,000 to 1M every dagyang since Toto’s Senior took the provincial helm in 1992. “A necessary sacrifice,” explains this rah-rah band who has yet to explain how they came to that conclusion. All of its membership are not part of the commuting public. They’re not public commuters. Datu Sarip’s Agwak’s local public transport route plan (LPTRP)  solved everything except make public t...

IN BEHALF of the management and staff of Amigaworld and Pestib Wok, I would like to express our profound gratitude to Datu Sarip Agwak and his accomplices in the Public Safety and Traffic Mismanagement Office (PSTMO) for their generosity that has led to sharp jump in sales of business establishments and our tenants since public transport local route plan (PTLRP). Thank you very much for crafting the traffic design that perfectly fits in our short and long term business plans. Before, only two public utility Jeep (PUJ) routes traversed the heart of Amigaworld and Pestib Wok — Mandurriao - Iloilo via SM and San Miguel - Jaro. Three other routes - Jaro - Mandurriao, Leon - Jaro and Alimodian - Jaro passed but only through its vicinity.  Since PTLRP was enforced on June 6, 2022 there are now countless - ha ha ha! Ginahimo na nila among lunar terminal o “hub”! May Aleosan (Alimodian, Leon and San Miguel) jeepneys, may vans pa gid; may Sooc - Hibao-an, Iloilo - Hibao-an kag Jaro - Hibao-...