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There’s an issue that’s stirring both the Dumaguete City Council and the Sibulan Municipal Council.

They both want to know how to skirt the legal prohibition for tricycles from plying the national highway without getting the jeepney drivers too angry.

Both Councils held a joint session last Wednesday, and a lot of ideas were floated about, including a ridiculous idea of allowing the Sibulan tricycles to get a Dumaguete franchise. (We bet that once that happens, there will be no more tricycles left in Sibulan.)

The Councilors agreed to form a Technical Working Group to flesh out the ideas.

Tricycles are allowed to ply the national highway only when there is no alternate route.

There actually is an alternate route: the fully-cemented Magatas-Camanjac road — but it seems nobody wants to give it a thought.

It is perfectly understandable, of course, that our legislators want to go the extra mile for our tricycle drivers. Tricycles, after all, are the vehicle of the masse. They’re much like jeepneys, although jeepneys don’t do door-to-door delivery.

There’s also the idea that tricycle drivers command a lot of votes.

But if our government affairs are managed with votes in mind, we will continue to deteriorate instead of going toward real progress.

This could be an argument for the idea that traffic issues should not be in the hands of politicians, but should be left to a private group.

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