A motorist (R) speeds previous a girl driving an electrical bike alongside a road in Manila on November 24, 2023. (Photograph by Ted ALJIBE / AFP)
MANILA, Philippines — Senator Grace Poe has referred to as for a grave interval too for digital bike customers who had been apprehended three days earlier than President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered a grace interval on the coverage banning such autos from main roads in Metro Manila.
Poe in a press release on Friday mentioned that it is just proper to grant a grace interval too for many who had been required to pay fines and had their e-bikes impounded.
The rule banning e-trikes from main Metro Manila roads like Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (Edsa), Commonwealth Avenue, and C-5 Street had been applied on April 15, whereas Marcos requested the Metropolitan Manila Improvement Authority on April 18 to present a grace interval.
“Tulad nang palugit na ibinigay ng Pangulo, marapat lamang na mabigyan din ng grace interval ang mga naunang nahuli mula sa multa at impounding. Dapat lang na mabigyan ang mga motorista ng sapat na panahon para makasunod sa bagong regulasyon, lalo na’t might kalituhan kung ano lang ang pinagbabawal at kung saan pwede dumaan ang mga mild electrical autos na hindi sakop ng ban,” Poe mentioned.
(Just like the grace interval given by the President, it is just right {that a} grace interval be given to the people who had been initially apprehended, requested to pay fines, and whose autos had been impounded. Motorists ought to actually be given sufficient time to observe the brand new regulation, particularly since there’s confusion as to what’s banned and the place mild electrical autos not included within the ban can go via.)
“Huwag na sana nating pahirapan ang mga may-ari ng e-bikes at e-trikes na naghahanap lang ng maayos na alternatibong masasakyan. Kinikilala natin ang importansiya ng info dissemination lalo na sa mga bagong haing polisiya na marahil ay nagdudulot ng kalituhan sa marami,” she added.
(Allow us to not burden the homeowners of e-bikes at e-trikes who’re simply in search of an alternate mode of transportation. Allow us to acknowledge the significance of knowledge dissemination particularly in new insurance policies which can have brought on confusion to many.)
Based on Poe, it’s incumbent upon the MMDA and the native authorities items to tell motorists of Marcos’ directive.
“We urge the MMDA, LGUs, and different visitors authorities to make use of this time to tell the general public about this new directive,” she famous.
Whereas Marcos maintained that there’s a must ban e-bikes — together with their three-wheeled and four-wheeled variants — from main roads, he admitted that there was a restricted time to tell the general public in regards to the new rule.
Thus, Marcos mentioned that e-bike and e-trike drivers shouldn’t be ticketed or fined, and must be merely redirected in the direction of the proper roads, and reminded of the MMDA’s new insurance policies.
Poe highlighted that e-bikes and e-bikes existed as a substitute type of transportation as a result of public transportation is insufficient and inefficient — because the duty of sustaining and innovating it falls on the federal government.
Based on the senator, if the federal government would restrict the place these e-bikes and e-trikes can go, easy accessibility of transportation modes must be made precedence.
“The recognition of e-trikes and e-bikes replicate the inadequacy and inefficiency of public transportation within the nation. Greater than any environmental advantages, these kinds of electrical autos are in demand as a result of their accessibility and affordability, particularly with the hovering costs of gas,” Poe mentioned.
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“If MMDA is to curb its use, it must also make mobility within the metro a precedence. We anticipate MMDA and different businesses concerned to make use of this time to sit down down with stakeholders and to create balanced insurance policies that think about the plight of our commuters with out compromising the protection of our streets,” she mentioned.
