The Bacolod Sangguniang Panlungsod approved on first, second, third and final reading an ordinance temporarily suspending the efficacy of existing city ordinances for the routing of all cargo trucks from the south going to the north for 50 days, effective Jan. 31, 2008 .

The ordinance was proposed by Councilor Wilson Gamboa Jr. following the closure starting Jan. 31 of the 40-year-old PHHC bridge along the circumferential road in Brgy. Villamonte, Bacolod City by the Department of Public Works and Highway. The rehabilitation and repair of the bridge will last for 50 days.

The ordinance provides that the Committee on Transportation chaired by Gamboa, together with all the stakeholders will continuously study other alternative and more viable routes within the period.

It also provides that strict measures against overloading of sugarcane and that trucks entering Bacolod City without proper signal lights and whose loads of sugarcane are not properly stocked should not be allowed to enter the city.

The ordinance requires that a report should be submitted to the SP after seven days.*CGS

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