Tagbilaran City's Ticycle Biblical Verses

Tagbilaran City has a city ordinance that requires each single tricycle to have in them painted Biblical quotes and verses. According to the local officials, this is to help drivers be reminded to always do good while on the street.

While they had the best idea in mind, there were still issues concerning that specially that the Philippines is a democratic country.

Let's face it, there will surely be drivers who might not be Christians but they are forced to add these verses or else they'll pay a certain fine or their registrations will be confiscated.

As a Christian, I like the idea as well as I enjoy reading on each verses and quotes whenever we are in the city but as a citizen and a lover of democracy, enforcing this to the extent of charging other non Christian drivers to paint their vehicles with such is I guess they went overboard. The city government must not generalize, they should or must give freedom of choice to every citizen.

Also, most tricycle drivers in the city are not even honest when it comes to the fare. I am a Boholana and I dislike that each driver we get into would charge us Php 60 to 80 from the port to Bohol Quality mall when it is just a a good 5-10 miutes drive.

There were several cases before as well of drivers overpricing us if the destination is to Island City Mall. And because I am not very familiar with how much it would cost us to get to this destination and such as well as we don't want to argue, we usually would just give in. Sometimes I grumble and talk to the driver but most of the time, it would be hard to negotiate and so we always ended up paying much more than what's the standard fare or else we would be walking to our destination.

What do you think? Please do watch my vlog here when James and I walked around Tagbilaran City a week ago.

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