TAGUIG CITY, July 31 (PIA) – The Taguig City government has intensified clearing roads and sidewalks from obstructions.
A team composed of the city’s Traffic Management Office, Public Order and Safety Office, Market Management Office, Business Permits and Licensing Office, General Services Office, and Solid Waste Management Office, City Engineering Office, Public Transport Office and Barangay Affairs Office together with the Philippine National Police (PNP), and the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) conducted the clearing operations.
Taguig City Mayor Lino Cayetano issued an executive order intensifying the city’s efforts in ensuring pedestrian and vehicular mobility and access to public services activities using public roads and other similar infrastructure to ensure public safety.
“As it is, Taguig is already a pedestrian-centered city, but we want to make it even more so. We want to make Taguig an even more walkable city,” Cayetano said.
The order also stated that aside from the space occupied by roads, transport system, buildings and infrastructures, the associated pedestrian and vehicular movement invariably shapes the urban forms of the city.
President Rodrigo Duterte during his State of the Nation Address last July 22, ordered all local government units to reclaim all public lands.
Following the order of the President, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) ordered LGUs to complete the task in 60 days.
“Our leadership has been consistent with its mandate in regulating the use of and access to streets, highways and public roads and has regularly implemented clearing of all public roads in the city of all obstructions that may endanger the safety and impede pedestrian and vehicular traffic flow,” Mayor Lino added. (PIA InfoComm/PIO Taguig)
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