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A Filipino trisikad driver pedaling a passenger through a narrow residential street in Cagayan de Oro City.
Cagayan de Oro

The invisible border: The heavy cost of the cheapest ride in Oro

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY — In the narrow arteries of a rapidly modernizing city, the trisikad driver trades sweat for coins. For drivers like Lourderico “Rico” Pedimonte and Ferdielito “Nong Lito” Sinag, the three-wheeled cycle is not just a livelihood—it is a "debt machine." While the city implements "urban order" through strict RTA enforcement and digital payment programs like Paleng-QR Ph, the men pedaling the interior alleyways of Barangay Lapasan and Cogon find themselves squeezed into a shrinking cage of prohibited routes and insurmountable impound fees. A single P1,500 citation for plying the national highway often becomes an economic death sentence for families living on ten-peso fares. This deep-dive explores the human cost of Cagayan de Oro’s race toward the future and asks: how does a city move forward without running over those pedaling hardest to keep up?

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