THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) gave additional grace period to Pangasinan Solid North after noting that the civil case filed by Solid North against Victory Liner before Branch 41 of the Regional Trial Court for not allowing its buses to pass through a road lot at the back of its terminal remains unresolved.

Solid North and other bus companies whose terminals are within 100 meters of a street intersection are disallowed by a  city ordinance to enter and exit from their  terminals.

At the same time, Councilor Alvin Coquia, chairman of the committee on transportation of the SP, said his committee gave Solid North whose buses are entering and exiting along Perez Boulevard an additional grace period to allow Victory Liner, Five Star mini-buses and passenger vans whose terminals are within 100 meters from intersections, to allow them time to find alternate locations for their terminals.

Ordinance No. 951-77 prohibits the erection of transport terminals whose ingress and egress is within 100 meters of a street intersections within the city of Dagupan.

Francisco Angeles, legal council of Solid North, informed the hearing by Coquia’s committee on September 12, that his company filed a civil case before  RTC  for prohibiting the latter’s buses from using an existing road lot and seeking payment of indemnity with prayer for the issuance of preliminary prohibitory injunction and preliminary injunction.

The road lot owned by Victory Liner was bought from the Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce when then Mayor Benjamin Lim was president of the chamber.

Solid North claimed that Victory Liner erected metal posts at the back of the terminal of Solid North to restrict its buses to enter and exit only through Perez Boulevard.

In the past, he said, no one was being prevented from using the road lot which had been existing since 1957 until Victory Liner bought the road lot  from the chamber.

He said the civil case filed by Solid North has its merit because it obtained a temporary restraining order for 20 days from the court but Victory Liner did not honor the TRO and refused to remove the metal posts.

Angeles said based on the latest order of the court dated August 29, 2017 and received by Solid North on September 4, 2017, it suspended the determi-nation of the merit of injunction sought by Solid North.

However, Solid North was ordered by Coquia’s committee to stop using M.H. Del Pilar Street as parking area of its buses at night. (Leonardo Micua) 

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