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Evaluation of The Facilities and Operation and Maintenance Program of The Bulaong City Terminal. The Problem and Its Setting
Evaluation of The Facilities and Operation and Maintenance Program of The Bulaong City Terminal. The Problem and Its Setting
Introduction
General Santos City Bulaong Terminal is owned and operated by the
Local Government Unit of General Santos City under the supervision of city
Administrators Office as mandated by section 5, Article 3 of ordinance # 8 series
of 2005 re: Administration, Operation and Maintenance of the City Terminal shall
be supervised by the City Administrator. (Facurib Jr., 2013)
The land area summed-up to eleven thousand and four hundred forty four
(11,444) square meters was donated by the heirs of the late Don Eusebio
Bulaong sometime in 1984. Upon completion of the Deeds of donation a building
was then built there on and became operational in 1992. Since such building
could not accommodate huge number of passengers and vehicles thus, major
renovation of the building was under taken and opened operationally last
December 22, 2004.In the first quarter of 2008, the city government has
constructed another concrete building just adjacent to the old one to be utilized
as terminal for vans and public utility jeepneys bound for nearby town, cities and
provinces and became operational last April 16, 2010. (Facurib Jr., 2013)
Providing service transportation which is adequate and appropriate is the
challenges that encountered in almost all cities in the world. Cities will always
have a new problem, which arise due to transportation system. In general, cities
like General Santos City are highly dependent to the road transport. Increasing
the number of residents and the use of motor vehicles has caused social and
economic problems for cities that are dependent on road transport highway.
Urban areas, such as General Santos City, characterized by limited right
of way, heavy population and traffic congestion, require special and innovative
structures and methods to lessen traffic congestion and accidents.
This research seeks to evaluate the operation and maintenance of
Eusebio
Bulaong
Public
Terminal,
General
Santos
City
whether
the
Objectives
This study aims to evaluate the current operation and maintenance of
Bulaong city terminal in General Santos City.
Specifically, the study will be guided by the following objectives:
1.
2.
3.
Definition of terms
Chapter II
Hon. Minardo A. Avila, Jr., Hon. Ramon R. Melliza, Hon. Jose Mari C. Natividad,
and Hon. Jose Mariano Constantino G. Gonzalez- Sponsors
however, are concerned, the same applies not only to the buses, jeepneys, vans
and filcabs/multicabs that are required to load and unload passengers at the
Bulaong Terminal, but also applies to the jeepneys, filcabs/multicabs that use the
Lagao Food Terminal. The departures fees of said passenger vehicles at the
Lagao Food Terminal shall be governed by this Ordinance, thereby amending
and/or repealing inconsistent ordinances/resolutions fixing departure fees of
public utility vehicles. Hence, departure fees of public utility vehicles using the
Bulaong Terminal and/or using the Lagao Food Terminal are now fixed by this
Ordinance.
Article 3
Definition of Terms
Paved Bay an area within the terminal building allocated for Public
Utility Vehicles (PUV) for the purpose of loading and unloading passengers.
(c.)
Conveyance (CPC) and registered as bus for hire with the Land Transportation
Office.
(d.)
Conveyance (CPC) and registered as jeepney for hire with the Land
Transportation Office. This includes the so-called Filcab/Multicabs.
(e.)
(CPC) registered as van for hire with the Land Transportation Office.
(f.)
Article 4
Policies, Rules & Regulations
Section 5. Administration, Operation and Maintenance of the City
Terminal. Administration, Operation and maintenance of the City Terminal shall
be supervised by the City Administrator who shall have the following duties and
responsibilities:
(a.)
To maintain the facilities, such as but not limited to keeping the fence and
(c.)
To adopt and enforce rules for orderly vehicle movements and parking
occupants;
(e.)
(f.)
(g.)
To assist the City Treasurers Office in the collection of terminal fees from
PUVs;
(h.)
(i.)
the rentable spaces of the terminal, provided that there will be at least three (3)
bidders accredited by the Sangguniang Panlungsod; and
(j.)
To perform all other functions required by the City Mayor for the efficient
All vans and buses and all northbound and westbound public utility
jeepneys for hire with approved routes outside the city limits are required to enter
the Eusebio Bulaong terminal to load and unload their passengers but not to the
prejudice of unloading passengers in between the point of origin and point of
destination. It is understood that their destination is from terminal to terminal.
They shall not be allowed to go around the city to pick up passengers.
(b.)
No private van garage and/or booking office for public utility vans shall
operate outside of the designated van terminal site upon the effectivity of this
Ordinance;
(c.)
directed to use the Lagao Food Terminal shall remain and continue using the
said area as their terminal provided that they pay the corresponding
departure/terminal fees as provided for in this Ordinance. It is understood that
party/parties responsible;
(f.)
road only to load and/or unload passengers. Tricycles are prohibited from
establishing their own terminal inside the Bulaong Terminal;
(g.)
The operation and maintenance of the rest rooms shall be turned over to
operators shall provide their own garbage receptacles for bio and nonbiodegradable wastes.
Section 7. Assignment of Bays. Bays at the Terminal shall be assigned
to operators after consultation with them, subject to the following procedures:
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(a.)
(MOA) with the City Administrator for the assignment of bays. The MOA shall be
renewable annually;
(c.)
Public utility jeepneys and vans shall occupy twelve (12) bays at the old
Public utility vans and jeepneys shall have separate bays. Vehicles
sharing the same or common routes shall occupy one bay and shall be parked
upon the instructions of the terminal authorities. Bays shall be assigned by
drawing of lots.
Section 8. Rental of Spaces. The following rates shall be charged as
rentals or leased fees:
(a.)
P30.00 per square meter per day rental for all office spaces in the
Terminal building.
(b.)
(c.)
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Year
Amount
Unit
P 30.00
1st year of implementation
Pesos/square meter/day
31.50
Pesos/square meter/day
33.00
Pesos/square meter/day
34.50
Pesos/square meter/day
36.00
Pesos/square meter/day
37.50
Pesos/square meter/day
39.00
Pesos/square meter/day
40.50
Pesos/square meter/day
42.00
Pesos/square meter/day
43.50
Pesos/square meter/day
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(a.)
(c.)
Card issued by the appropriate group and duly signed and approved by the
terminal overseer.
(d.)
Passengers who desire to carry their own cargoes shall not be obliged to
Barkers and private dispatchers for jeepneys and vans shall not be
Every public utility van and jeepney shall be assigned to a bay and shall
The Office of the City Administrator shall assign dispatchers for vans and
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(d.)
A Civil Security Unit (CSU) personnel assigned at the gate shall record all
departing and arriving vans and jeepneys to monitor the order of dispatching.
Article 5
Hawking, Peddling and Selling Along Sidewalks
Section 11. Prohibition to Hawk, Sell or Peddle Along Sidewalks. No
person shall hawk or peddle his/her wares along the sidewalks, alleys, aisles or
corridors inside the terminal;
Section 12. No person shall hawk or peddle his/her wares inside the
buses or any public utility vehicle within the terminal.
Section 13. Prohibition on Illegal Structures. No person shall put up
any structure, shanty, barong-barong, shed, table or push cart within the
premises of the Eusebio Bulaong Public Terminal for the purpose of selling or
keeping his wares or articles for sale to the public.
Article 6
Fees and Collection
Section 14. Departure Fees. On departure, there shall be levied a
terminal fee upon each owner/operator of any departing public utility vehicle for
using the new terminal bays at the following rates.
(a.)
Buses
P 50.00/departure
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(b.)
Vans
P 30.00/departure
(c.)
Jeepneys
P 20.00/departure
(d.)
Filcab/Multicabs
P 15.00/departure
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Section 23. The Operators shall not start or proceed with any repair
work, extend the area, occupy more bays/alleys as allowed nor in any case
introduce improvements or make any alteration in the leased premises without
prior written consent and approval of the City Administrator; and that in case of
permitted improvements or alterations, the same shall not be removed but shall
belong to and become the exclusive property of the City Government of General
Santos, without any right of reimbursement on the part of the operators.
Section 24. The operators shall comply with all sanitation rules and
safety regulations which are promulgated by the duly constituted authorities and
those that may be imposed from time to time by the City Administrator and to
keep and maintain the leased premises in clean and sanitary condition and
disposed of all rubbish or garbage only thru the means and places indicated by
the City Administrator for the purpose.
Section 25. Each operator shall require his/her employee/s to wear
companys ID upon entering the premises of the Eusebio Bulaong Public
Terminal and to require them to log-in the logbook prepared by the overseer of
the said Terminal for identification purposes.
Section 26. Each Operator shall not directly or indirectly sublease,
assign, transfer, convey mortgage or in any way encumber his privilege of lease
over the leased premises or any portion thereof under any circumstances
whatsoever, or shall allow any person to conduct business thereat by tolerance,
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thus, any agreement or contract that may be made in violation of this clause be
null and void.
Section 27. Each operator shall undertake the expenses for minor repair
of the leased premises resulting from ordinary wear and tear but major repairs
shall be assumed by the City Administrators Office provided that the operator
informs the City Administrators Office before any repair is undertaken.
Section 28.
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Article 8
Penalty, Amendatory, Separability, Effectivity Clauses
Section 32. Penalty Clause. Any person violating the provisions of the
foregoing Sections shall be punished as follows:
(a.)
For operators of buses, jeepneys and vans who violate any provision of
For peddlers, hawkers and or any personnel who violate any provision of
this Ordinance shall be punished with a fine of Five Hundred Pesos (P500.00).
(c.)
Any other persons shall be punished to pay a fine of Five Hundred Pesos
(P500.00).
Section 33. Amendatory Clause. All Ordinances, Resolutions, Orders,
Memoranda and other Issuances inconsistent herewith are hereby amended,
repealed or modified accordingly.
Section 34. Separability Clause. If, for one reason or another, some
part of this Ordinance is found to be invalid or unconstitutional, all other
provisions hereof not affected thereby shall remain to be in full force and effect.
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any or all of the following acts: compelling vehicles merely passing through
to use the public transport terminals established or designated by the LGUs
and imposing fees thereon; closing down existing private terminals or cut
tailing the operation of said terminals for the purpose of using the public
transport terminals established or designated by the LGUs; and the LGUs
failure to observe the policies, standards and limitations on the
establishment and operation of public transport terminals.
In view thereof, DILG-DOTC JMC No.1, s. 2008, particularly on the guidelines in
the establishment and operation of public transport terminal, is hereby
REITERATED.
Local Chief Executives and Presiding officers and Members of the
Sanggunian at all levels are hereby directed to IMMEDTATELY comply
herewith by amending all locally-issued ordinances, orders, rules and
regulations which are in conflict DILG-DOTC JMC No. 1. s. 2008.
All DILG Regional Directors are directed to cause the widest dissemination
of this Memorandum Circular in their respective areas of responsibility and to
monitor the LGUs' compliance here with.
Ordinance No. 02 series of 2013
WHEREAS, the Eusebio Bulaong Public Terminal is the only authorized
public passenger transport station in General Santos City;
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commercial
establishment
must
possess
the
following
minimum
qualifications;
a.
(P500,000,000.00) capital;
c.
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of the City Government of General Santos, and (d.) notice requiring the person
apprehended for extra-judicial settlement of his or her violation by paying the
prescribed amount of fine at the Office of the City Treasurer within seventy-two
(72) hours from issuance thereof, otherwise, appropriate complaint shall be filed
against him/her before the court of law.
Section 11. Amendatory Clause.- All Ordinances, Resolutions, Orders,
Memoranda and other Issuances inconsistent herewith are hereby amended,
repealed or modified accordingly.
Section 12. Separability Clause. If, for any reason, any part or provision of
this Ordinance shall be found to be unconstitutional or invalid, other parts or
provision thereof which are not affected thereby, shall continue to be in full force
and effect.
Section 13. Effectivity Clause. This Ordinance shall take effect
immediately after fifteen (15) days following the completion of its full publication
in any newspaper of general circulation in the City of General Santos.
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Chapter III
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents the method of how the study was conducted. This
establishes the research design of the study. It describes the setting of the
research, geographical area, data gathering procedure, and sampling technique,
instruments, including methods implemented to maintain validity.
Research Design
A descriptive research design was used. It means that descriptive
research gathers quantifiable information that can be used for statistical
inference on your target audience through data analysis. As a consequence this
type of research takes the form of closed-ended questions, which limits its ability
to provide unique insights. However, used properly it can help an organization
better define and measure the significance of something about a group of
respondents and the population they represent.
Research Locale
The study was conducted at the Eusebio Bulaong Public Terminal which is
located at General Santos City Hall and at the General Santos City Bulaong
Terminal (City Terminal) which is located at Brgy. North, General Santos City. The
place where the data is being gathered is a government facility where in the
staffs and officers employed by the government happen to be working.
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Data Collection
The researcher sought suggestions and instructions from the instructors
about the research study to be conducted. The researcher requested for experts
and knowledgeable in research work to evaluate the validity of the interview
questionnaire. Comments and suggestions for any changes and further
improvement of the questionnaire were adopted.
The researcher prepared a brief introduction and cover letter, stating the
purpose of the study, importance of the respondents participation and the
assurance of confidentiality of responses.
A communication letter was sent to the City Administrators Office and
General Santos City Bulaong Terminal (City Terminal) thru the city program
coordinator to allow the researcher to conduct the said study sought permission
for the participation of staffs and officers as the respondents of the study.
The Data was collected through interviewing some officers and staffs in
the City Administrators Office and City Terminal Office. Interviewing could get us
more accurate results for the gathered information came from the most reliable
source through personal questioning.
These were the question asked:
1.
What are the vehicles that park inside and outside of the terminal and
how are they organized?
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2.
How does the LGU of General Santos City develop parking management
3.
And also some of the data were collected from the web as a part of strengthening
the research study.
Chapter IV
FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
In this chapter, the data gathered from the staffs and officers of the City
Administrators Office and General Santos City Bulaong Terminal (City Terminal)
in relation to the research objectives. This chapter discusses the result of the
semi-structured questionnaires/interviews responded by the participants. Before
the initiation of the research study, the significance, rationale and purpose of the
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study were provided respondents. Furthermore, the respondents have also been
given the assurance that all the data they will give are used for the purpose of the
research and the identities of the respondents will be confidential. The object is
to determine the parking management system at General Santos City Bulaong
Terminal. This is the manner unto which the study accounts the factors and the
perception on the criteria themselves.
The data gathered are as follows:
The following are the ordinances, rules and regulations being implemented and
followed in the Bulaong Terminal,
Ordinance 02 series of 2013
WHEREAS, the Eusebio Bulaong Public Terminal is the only authorized
public passenger transport station in General Santos City;
WHEREAS, the City of General Santos continues to grow as a city, both
economically and socially and recognizes the publics growing need for public
transport, especially in the commercial areas;
WHEREAS, allowing large commercial establishments such as malls to
put up satellite public utility van terminals shall provide easy access,
convenience and safety to the riding public;
WHEREAS, the Department of the Interior and Local Government issued
Memoranda Circular No. 2011-150 dated October 12, 2011, subject matter of
which is the reiteration of DILG-DOTC Joint Memorandum Circular No. 01,
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commercial
qualifications;
establishment
must
possess
the
following
minimum
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a.
(P500,000,000.00) capital;
c.
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(d) clean comfort rooms for men, women, elderly and persons with
disabilities;
(e) a free and safe drinking station;
(f) garbage waste containers;
(g) a CCTV camera and sufficient security for safety; and
(h) at least one (1) emergency fire truck;
(i) availability of Information and Passenger Assistance Counters or
Personnel;
(j) appropriate and adequate signages;
(k) priority lane for persons with special needs specifically pregnant
women, mothers travelling with infants and/or small children and those with
physical disabilities.
Section 6. Fees. The following fees shall be levied upon:
a.) Terminal Fee. The public utility van satellite operators may charge
reasonable terminal usage fee to the public utility vans operating at the PUV
satellite terminals not exceeding P60.00;
b.) Departure Fee. The public utility vans will also pay P30.00 to the
operator as departure fee and which shall be remitted to the City Treasurers
Office;
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Section 1. It is unlawful for any land transportation to park over night on road
right of way.
Section 2. Any driver or owner of land transportation company will be both liable
if found guilty of the above provision and punished of a fine of not more than two
hundred pesos or an imprisonment of not more than six months or both fine and
imprisonment at the discretion of the court.
Parking Space/Terminal
Section 1. All provisions regarding designation of parking for passenger buses,
jeepneys, cargo trucks and tricycles embodied under Ordinance Nos. 8 and 23,
series of 1964, respectively; Ordinance No. 26, series of 1965, and Ordinance
No. 62 series of 1967, are hereby repealed.
Section 2. The following is hereby adopted:
1.
That all passenger buses including Minibuses without its own terminals
and regardless of where it is coming from or going to shall park along the right
side of Gallego Boulevard from corner of Narangita Street from the Public Market
on
2.
spaces
adequately
designated
by
visible
signs;
That part of Cagampang Street from corner West side road to Gallego
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jeepneys coming in and going out for Lagao, Bula, Baluan and Buayan;
4.
That portion of the Morrow Boulevard from corner Gallego Boulevard to West
Siguel
and
Polomolok;
That the West Side road, Eastern side from corners Morrow Boulevard to
Cagampang
6.
Klinan,
Street
is
designated
as
parking
space
for
tricycles;
That no streets, alleys, and parks shall be utilized as terminal of public utility
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This figure shows the parking area management in the General Santos City
Bulaong Terminal. It clearly shows the flow of each vehicle that passes along the
terminal and how things are well organized.
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This figure shows the timeline of each vehicle with different routes and turns to
load and unload passengers at a specific time. It also shows what are the
vehicles and their companies that transport the passengers in and out of the
terminal.
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Recommendation
Based on the result of the study, the researcher recommended the
following:
1. Further study must be conducted also on the other public terminals
(especially in GSC public market) in General Santos City.
2. The future researchers should observed more to pertain a condition of
development of parking system.
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