Bayawan-Sta.Catalina Campus

College of Education

of

2014

SUBMITTED TO:

Reynaldo J. Navarro HISTORY 111 INSTRUCTOR

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Integrated Bus Terminal

On the conversion of the Municipality of Bayawan into a City, the basic utilities

like infrastructure support projects are still limited. One of these major utilities is the

Integrated Bus Terminal with Farmers Market. With its conversion into a component City,

the significant increase of Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) from the National

Government can manage to improve and develop basic utilities to the advantage and benefit

of its people. The Integrated Bus Terminal with Farmers Market shall provide easy access

to all commuters in and around the city, the neighboring municipalities and cities as well.

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Purpose of Integrated Bus Terminal

The present bus terminal located at the Central Business District (CBD) owned by

Vallacar Corporation Inc. can only cater to its own buses that ply to the whole island.

Considering the size of the roads within the area, in a period of 5 to 10 years these will be

fully congested with vehicles and commuters alike. Beside the buses, there are also

jeepneys, multicabs, pedicab and the so-called Habal-habal (a single motorcycle that

could carry four to five passengers) that also serve the commuters in the coastal barangays,

neighboring municipalities and barangays in the hinterlands. These jeepneys, multi-cabs,

pedicabs use open spaces and terminal within the CBD.

Before the construction, the city government aims to establish an integrated bus

terminal with a farmers market to provide a safe and convenient area for commuters. This

will decongest the traffic within the central business district. Areas that are being utilized

as terminal for public vehicles shall be converted into a commercial uses to expand existing

commercial stalls. This will provide opportunities for business, which eventually shall

provide employment in the city. The existence of a farmers market shall provide a better

way for farmers in disposing their farm products. Considering the Bayawans dream to

become the Agricultural Capital of the whole province of Negros Oriental shall thus,

become a reality while poverty is minimized in both the urban and hinterlands barangay.

The farmers market shall be located beside the integrated bus terminal to provide

farmers from the different barangays in the city a better means of selling their farm

products. Besides the access provided to them, it shall also lower the cost of transportation

since the farmers market is advantageously located beside the integrated bus terminal.

This undertaking shall provide the initial direction in alleviating poverty in the city

and a strategy in realizing the citys vision of becoming the Agricultural Capital of the

province. One that is sustainable which in the end shall transform Bayawan City into an

economic center of Southern Negros Island.

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Construction of Integrated Bus Terminal

Location of the Project:

Integrated Business Center (IBC) was located in Brgy. Villareal,

Bayawan City

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Under the leadership of Hon. German P. Saraa, the City Mayor, and Hon. Rene

G. Gaudiel, Vice-Mayor, the Integrated Bus Terminal is constructed. This project was

funded by Bayawan City Local Government Unit. The construction of the Integrated Bus

Terminal was undertaken by the City Engineering office. The design of this project was

headed by Engr. Eric O. Torres, the City Planning Officer IV.

The construction of this project started on May 3, 2005 and finished on November

26, 2007. The cost of this project was 102,452,653.00, this included the budget for road

network, lot acquisition and landscaping.

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Holy Mass during

the Inauguration

Cutting of Ribbon

Leaders that

Made this

Project Possible

December 22, 2007

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Change of Purpose

Unfortunately, when the Integrated Bus Terminal was about to finish, the Vallacar

Transit Corporation Inc. constructed their own bus terminal at the heart of the city. Vallacar

transit, being the largest bus company in the island had made the main purpose of the

Integrated Business Center (IBT) to failure because they will no longer transfer to the newly

constructed IBT of Bayawan City. After the inauguration, when the bus terminal has not

been used by its major purposes, the city planning section decided to rename the building.

They converted the building into a Business Center and called it as Integrated Business

Center (IBC). The Integrated Business Center became a tourism center that provide

different business opportunities for the City. This building Features 1 VIP Hall, 3 Function

Halls, and many rooms for hotel accommodation. Differet activities like seminar, workshop,

wedding reception and some business transactions was held at the function halls of IBC at

a very affordable price. The groundfloor of the building serve as extension office of some

Departments of the Local Government Units of Bayawan City. IBC grounds serve as the

venue for different big events in the City of Bayawan like Tawo-Tawo Festival Showdown,

NORSU-BSC Acquaintance Party, and so many other activities.

In fact, the three-day

24th Regional Farm Family

Congress cum 4-H Summer

Youth Camp was held at

Integrated Business Center in

Bayawan City, this province

last April 23-25, 2014.

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Despite of the happening that made the purpose about the bus terminal change,

Bayawan City is optimistically looking unto the dream that the Farmers Market will be at

IBC to help the farmers in disposing their farm products and in exchange would help the

city in realizing its dream to be the Agricultural Capital of the Province.

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