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Manila Bulletin devider Philippines devider Driving past 60kph? Better prepare P2K in Cebu City

Driving past 60kph? Better prepare P2K in Cebu City

Published Sep 9, 2021 05:46 pm

CEBU CITY — Hefty fines await those who will be caught overspeeding in the city's major thoroughfares especially at the South Road Properties (SRP).

The city is set to implement City Ordinance 2612 otherwise known as ordinance "providing for the speed limits for all kinds of motor vehicles within the territorial jurisdiction of the City of the Cebu."

With the upcoming implementation of the ordinance, personnel of the Cebu City Transportation Office (CCTO) has started conducting dry runs to test its speed guns at SRP, where speed limit is set at 60 kilometer per hour (kph).

With the use of speed guns, CTTO personnel flagged down motorists who were caught driving beyond the 60 kph limit.

Speed limit road signs have been mounted at SRP.

Once the ordinance is implemented, those who will be caught overspeeding will be fined P2, 000 plus a three-hour safety driving seminar for first offense.

Second offense carries a P2, 500-fine, a four-hour seminar and a three-hour community service.

Those who will be caught for third infraction will be slapped with a P3,000 fine while the vehicle will be impounded.

Meantime, the city government of Mandaue is set to strictly enforce an ordinance that will ensure that bikers will follow traffic rules.

Edwin Anthony Jumao-as, executive director of Traffic Enforcement Agency of Mandaue (TEAM), said a week-long information campaign will be conducted before the City Ordinance No. 15-2020-1582 will implemented.

The ordinance is also known as the Comprehensive Bicycle Ordinance of 2020.

Under the ordinance a P50 fine will be collected from a biker who will be caught driving with no helmet or not wearing a reflectorized vest or any bright-colored shirt.

A biker driving a bicycle with no front or rear reflectors/blinkers will also be fined P50.

Those who will be caught driving a bicycle with no brakes or these who will be caught counterflowing, overloading, backriding or driving outside the bicycle lane will be fined P100.

Repeat offenders and those who will not be able to pay the fine will be required to undergo a seminar on the city's bike system operation.

The implementation of the ordinance was announced through TEAM's Facebook page on Thursday. Enforcement of the ordinance will start a week after the announcement.

The impending enforcement of the ordinance came after the recent road incidents involving bicycle riders.

Last month, two bakeshop workers were assaulted by two bicycle riders along A.S. Fortuna Street, Mandaue.

The two riders got irked after one of their companies was allegedly sideswiped by the tricycle driven by one of the bakeshop workers.

The incident became controversial after one of the bikers supposedly introduced himself as agent of the National Bureau of Investigation.

A few days ago, a driver of a multicab got into a heated argument with a group of bikers.

The incident also happened in Mandaue.

The driver of the multicab alleged that the bikers occupied the middle portion of the road that prompted him to blow his horn so he could get through.

The driver said one of the bikers got irked and challenged him to a fistfight.

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