If elected, Barug’s Yap to push for law requiring motorcycle training among riders

Richard Yap, Cebu City North District congressional candidate of Barug PDP-Laban, (left) shares his plans if he gets reelected at the Mega Cebu Candidates forum on April 30. | Rosalie O. Abatayo

CEBU CITY, Philippines  — If he gets elected, Richard Yap, Cebu City North District congressional candidate, will push for a law requiring the mandatory training of motorcycle riders.

Speaking before students during the Mega Cebu Candidates Forum on Monday, April 29, Yap said that it was worrisome that most motorcycle riders use motorbikes without the proper training.

“Our transportation bills are antiquated and we have to have a mandatory motorcycles riders [training] or one of the bills I want to propose is that those motorcycle riders will have a mandatory riding training,” said Yap.

“We see all these people who are riding around from a bike (bicycle) and directly to a motorbike  (motorcycle) without any training so they do not know the [traffic] rules,” he said.

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Yap, who is joining politics for the first time, is running under the opposition block, Partido Barug – Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban). Yap is a businessman and an actor, who gained popularity for his role as “Sir Chief” in the ABS-CBN’s then popular noon-time drama, “Be Careful With My Heart.”

In the midterm elections, Yap will run against reelectionist Cebu North District Representative Raul del Mar, who is allied with the Bando Osmeña-Pundok Kauswagan (BO-PK).

Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, BO-PK founder, and Del Mar, on the other hand, are pushing for the regulation and legalization of motorcycles a means of public transport.

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