The Dumaguete City Traffic Management Office has suspended the strict enforcement of an ordinance that increases the mayor's permit from P27 to P400 as agreed upon in a compromise agreement.

Mayor Agustin Perdices had earlier vowed to enforce the law, but due to the desire of the majority of the drivers to adhere to the provisions of Ordinance No. 88, he said he is giving them time to acquire the mayor's permit, especially on tricycle units with numbers ending in 1, 2, 3 and 4.

TMO operations chief Danny Atillo stressed that tricycle units without mayor's permits are easy to identify, because of the corresponding stickers issued to them.

Atillo disclosed that after the compromise agreement and the deadline last Monday, pedicab drivers lined up at the TMO office to process their mayor's permits to avoid being apprehended by traffic officers.*JG

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