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Article: The River Taxis of Cagayan De Oro City.(Travel)
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- Manila Bulletin
- Article date:
- September 6, 2009
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It could have been an ordinary cruise of the Cagayan De Oro river had it not been for the river taxi that brought us through 17 river barangays.Liceo de Cagayan University currently manages two river taxis that ply the 10-kilometer stretch of the Cagayan de Oro River. But these are not patrol cars, clarified Dr. Rosalina Huerbana, executive director of the Safer River, Life Saver Foundation (SRLSF), Inc.The river taxi was conceptualized as part a of a technical paper produced by Liceo de Cagayan’s School of Graduate Studies in 1997 in its effort to protect the river from the dangers of present and future pollution pressures. It is a transportation model that ...