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Speak out: Pardo structure




Friday, December 15, 2006
Speak out: Pardo structure
By Domingo Abellanosa

(The letter is addressed to Vicente Mercado, chief of the Speed Office of Cebu City Hall)

This is a reaction to the news report titled “Structures across Sotto hospital torn down” (Sun.Star Cebu, Top Stories, Page A-2, Nov. 21, 2006).

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I appreciate highly the actions taken by you and your men in demolishing the structures built along the sidewalks that are the passageways of pedestrians. But in implementing the city ordinance, you should not have been biased or selective and acted regardless of who gets hurt.

I wish to remind you that a structure at the corner of Sunrise Village and the national highway in Pardo is blocking the sidewalk. Barangay Captain Danny Lim as well as Arnel Tancinco of Citom and you yourself are playing deaf and blind to this situation.

Motorists coming from Sunrise Village, whether executing a left turn or right turn, cannot see incoming vehicles from the highway because drivers are blinded by this structure. Drivers approaching the corner have to shift to first gear to gain more inertia to reach the highway, as the road is ascending.

During lunch and snack time, drivers of PUJs with route numbers 10E, 10C and 10F park in front of the structure and even up to a nearby gasoline station, thereby giving no place for pedestrians. Citom patrol cars just pass by and nothing happens.

One morning, at about 6:45, when I went out of the Sto. Nino Church, Speed employees riding a multicab owned by the Cebu City Government stopped and tried to seize the Sto. Niño icons displayed by a middle-aged man in a makeshift stand. The man was able to run with the Sto. Nino icons and only the makeshift stand was seized.

If they did this to implement the city ordinance, why can’t they demolish the structure that is subject of my complaint?

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