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Tabuk business sector opposes centralized terminal proposal

TABUK, Kalinga (May 25) — The planned transport terminal and trading post project of the Tabuk municipal government received objections from the representatives of the local business sector here.

Business sector representative Dr. Constancio Claver said in a statement that the project is untimely due to the country’s economic instability. He reacted that the traffic congestion problem is not really that bad and that if there were funds, there are basic needs which the LGU should address instead.

“Management of present income-generating activities of the LGU needs improvement before launching another venture. The failed projects of the government in the area should not be repeated and that the advance purchase of land is not practical,” he stated.

Claver also iterated the need for regular dialogues with the LGU.

Another representative, Dr. Clifford Gacuya, said that the business climate is not conducive to the project. Mr. Jeoffrey Peralta of the business sector meanwhile implored the LGU to make sure that the people would patronize the terminal and that there would be definite funding for the project.

The LGU plans to setup a centralized terminal and business center to address the problem of traffic congestion in the municipality with the intention to merge the business centers in Bulanao and Dagupan Center.

The proposed terminal needs at least five hectares of land which the LGU intends to co-sponsor with the business sector. This could run to some P200 million.

Mayor Camilo Lammawin of Tabuk explained that the projects will serve as complex which will cater to all transportation servicing the province or bound for outside places and that it will have businesses such as hotels, trading post and gasoline station.

The LGU’s feasibility study shows that the rental collection efficiency and profit earned at the Tabuk Public Market “is as not as bad as pictured in the proposal” and that it is hard to assign parking areas for Public Utility Vehicles along the streets because the adjoining residents object, thus the LGU wanted to push-through with the said projects.

While the business sector expressed unfavorable response towards the proposal, members of the LGU asked the sector to help build confidence on the ability of the leadership of the LGU.

Councilor Basilio Wandag of the LGU concluded, “the people of Tabuk are not ready for change, they say that it is not yet the time, if not now, it would be after a million years then.” # Carole Jean A. Cupag and Maria Rica Alminiana Lumangcas for NORDIS

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