BACOLOD City – The Bacolod City Traffic Authority Office (BTAO) will resume its operation against illegal e-bikes on Friday, May 24.
Earlier, Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez directed the 61 village chiefs in the city to submit the list of e-bikes operating in their respective barangays ,together with their tariff and routes.
The move aims to regulate e-bikes in the city following the Department of Interior and Local Government’s (DILG) Memorandum Circular (MC) 2020-036, which prohibits tricycles, pedicabs, and motorized pedicabs from operating on national highways.
This also aims to protect the riding public, the city mayor said.
On Friday, May 17, Mayor Benitez convened the village chiefs purposely to create guidelines with regards to the operation of e-bikes.
The mayor had informed them that by May 24 the BTAO will resume its operation against e-bikes as the city is implementing the DILG memorandum.
Following the said meeting, there were only 22 barangays that have submitted the list of e-bikes. These were barangays 18, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 22, 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, Banago, Bata, Cabug, Estefania, Felisa, Handumanan, Granada , Pahanocoy, Vista Alegre, and Villamonte.
The rest of the barangays were given until Monday, May 20, to submit their lists./PN
