The Tanjay City Sanggunian has started deliberations on a plan to build a P30-million integrated bus terminal and motorpool on a six-hectare government land near Square Garden, three kilometers from the city center.

Councilor Erkki Lozarita said the project aims at decongesting traffic in the center of the city and to encourage economic growth in the sparsely populated site outside the city proper.

Lozarita described the project as pro-poor because it would benefit small vendors by opening new businesses in the terminal complex.

At the moment, he said, the city government has enough money to build more projects and implement new programs because of its annual P220 million share of the Internal Revenue Allotment and the annual income of the city government of more than P40 million.

Meanwhile, Lozarita admitted that he has received invitations from groups urging him to run for vice mayor in the elections next year.

The councilor, a journalist, said his options remain open but that, he was subject to, and would abide by the rules and disciplines of the Nationalist People's Coalition to which he belongs.*RG

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