Mayor to bocaps: Stop parking on b’gay roads

 BAGUIO CITY  -  Mayor Mauricio Domogan directed all barangay officials here to monitor and clear barangay roads from any obstruction that affect smooth flow of traffic.

This, after fire burned houses within Department of Public Works and Highways compound at the Engineer’s Hill last May 28 wherein firetrucks had a hard time getting to the site due to vehicles parked along the road.

Domogan urged officials to strictly implement ordinance no. 7, series of 1984 known as “Ordinance Adopting a Comprehensive Transportation and Traffic Regulations in the city provides for the towing of vehicles parked in undesignated parking areas.”

Although the Land Transportation Office requires parking spaces prior to the registration of motor vehicles to public utility vehicles only, the mayor believes that is it high time for the city council to pass amendments to the existing traffic and transportation code by also requiring private vehicle owners proof of parking spaces before the registration of their vehicles.   

On the other hand, he urged barangay officials to look for vacant lots in their respective barangays and identify the same as barangay needs to be utilized as parking space for their constituents.

 “The Baguio City Police Office (BCPO) lacks manpower to apprehend illegal parked vehicles on roads that hamper the flow of traffic, thus, I need your (barangay officials) active involvement in our campaign to clear city as well as barangay roads from any obstructions to avoid untoward incidents in the near future,” stressed Domogan.

“As barangay officials, it is your responsibility to talk and to remind your constituents with vehicles not to park at the roadside considering that this is one of the causes of traffic congestions as well as accidents,” he added.

Moreover, the mayor also encouraged barangay residents to monitor willful private vehicle owners and report them to their barangay officials for appropriate action