Sidewalk clearing until October

The City Transport and Traffic Management Office is now at 46% completion of the clearing operations of the city’s sidewalks.

Dionisio Abude, CTTMO chief, gave the update yesterday during the flag raising ceremony at the City Hall Grounds.

Abude said the City Engineer’s Office and the City Planning and Development Office identified 366 city streets in the city. Forty one of those were identified to have obstructions and 19 were totally cleared since their operation last month.

Some of these roads, Abude said, include Roxas, Buhangin, Quirino, and Quimpo Boulevard.

Other than the city streets, the CTTMO also included in their list of roads to be reclaimed three provincial roads including Davao-Bukidnon, Davao-Cotabato, and Davao-Agusan.

Yesterday, the CTTMO cleared the roads along Dacudao street.

The CTTMO teamed up with the Ancillary Service Unit to clear up obstructions in the streets of the city including illegally parked vehicles, street vendors, and others.

According to him, non-compliant establishments will be issued with a notice of violation.

“We will really strive that the 41 roads identified to have sidewalk obstruction be cleared within October,” said Abude.

Repetitive violators might face revocation of permits and may no longer be able to renew permits also until they would comply to the sidewalk clearing operations.

“We will surely implement the recommendations to the City Engineer’s Office, City Legal Office and the Ancillary Service Unit to really implement the cancellation of permits to the Business Bureau. We will also recommend that their permits will no longer be renewed,” Abude said.

Abude added that none of the establishments in the city was recommended for the cancellation of permits. He added that they were mostly compliant.