Tell it to Sunstar: Attention, LTO Central Visayas

I work in downtown Cebu City. I commute daily to and from my workplace.

Going to my workplace, I have to ride a passenger utility vehicle (PUV) twice. My first stop is the bus stop on A. Soriano Ave. in Barangay Mabolo, Cebu City, just a stone’s throw away from the Mabolo Police Station and Mabolo Fire Sub Station.

The problem with the area is this: It has become a terminal of modernized jeepneys of a transportation cooperative. The coop’s modern PUV units line up while waiting for passengers. A unit would only speed off if it is already full of passengers.

The buses and other modernized jeepneys could not unload their passengers properly in the designated bus and jeepney stops because they are blocked by a line of the cooperative’s parked PUV units. Some buses and modernized jeepneys unload their passengers in the middle of the street.

I saw once this month a vehicle of the Land Transportation Office Central Visayas (LTO 7) pass by the area. The cooperative’s PUV units hurriedly left the area. Obviously, the drivers were afraid of getting apprehended.

I hope the LTO 7 would make its operations against illegal terminals permanent because illegal terminals create traffic. Also, unloading passengers in the middle of the road is dangerous.

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board should also reprimand the cooperative.