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Monday, September 26, 2005
Fire-scarred residents ask for road
AT least 82 residents of Sitio Sea Lions, Barangay Inayawan appealed for the Cebu City Council’s help to hasten the completion of a road that will help them escape, in case another fire breaks out.
The access road remains unfinished because the barangay has no money to complete the remaining 300-meter stretch.
The petitioners, whose letter Inawayan Barangay Captain Licerio Jaca endorsed to the office of City Councilor Jose Daluz III, said that aside from Sea Lions, adjacent barangays will also benefit from the road.
The residents said that although the road is just a barangay road, it serves a role similar to that of a national road.
They said that in the last three fires that hit the area, the lack of access roads made the situation worse. Homes were lost. A resident was killed.
“Several houses had been reduced to ashes and one life had been lost mainly because fire trucks could not get through to the site, whereas the presence of an access road might have prevented the loss of life and property,” the residents’ petition read.
If the access road is finished, they also expect that traffic will improve on F. Jaca St., particularly the portion from the public market to the corner of White Road.
“(Traffic) will ease up immeasurably as vehicles and numerous trisikads going to and from the sanitary landfill area will be passing through this barangay road,” they said.
They ask the City for funds to complete the road.
“Due to financial constraints, our barangay has been unable to pursue the completion of the project and, as we see it, is unlikely to be able to do so in the immediate future,” they added.
Jaca agreed, saying Inayawan at the moment “is not in a position to finish the project because of its limited resources.”
The Cebu City Council, however, merely “noted” the letter in last week’s regular session. (RHM)
(September 26, 2005 issue)
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