No pedicabs, tricycles allowed on EDSA starting Monday – Highway Patrol Group

 

The Philippine National Police Highway Patrol Group will begin apprehending tricycles and pedicabs that stray onto EDSA starting Monday.

 

But tricycle drivers, some of whom were interviewed near EDSA-Monumento, said commuters themselves want them to go on EDSA and that turning them down will mean lost revenues.

 

"Eh, walang magagawa. Pag nahuli, makikiusap na lang," Kirby Adrid of the Bustamante Tricycle Operators' and Drivers' Association said in a "24 Oras" report on Sunday.

 

"Doon lang ho kami umaasa. Mahina ang biyahe... Kaya chance lang ho namin kung may [biyaheng] Bagong Barrio kami ," George Salas, another tricycle driver, said. "Tatawid lang po kami doon."

 

Commuters at Balintawak Market, where tricycles and pedicabs use EDSA, say enforcing the existing ban in national highways will make it harder to get around.

 

"Saan naman po kami sasakay pag umuwi kami? Kasi kung magji-jeep po kami, napakalayo naman kasi ng lalakarin namin," a woman at Balintawak Market said.

 

But the PNP-HPG said tricycles and pedicabs should only be using inner streets and will enforce the ban anyway.

 

"Huwag na kami i-challenge, diba? Whatever the order is, we will follow," C/Insp. Allan Calaguas, Highway 11 PNP HPG team leader, said. "Huhulihin talaga." — JDS, GMA News