THE Baguio City District Engineering Office (BCDEO) is set to inventory the present number of overpasses in Baguio to look into its present state.

Nora Delos Santos, BCDEO assistant city engineer, said the inventory will give these existing overpasses the necessary repairs once the funds are available.

“We will be conducting an inventory of our overpasses and we will find a way on how we can get the funds for its repair. This was supposed to have been turned over to the local government unit but according to them it was not, which is why we will be doing the inventory,” Delos Santos said.

It was observed that portions of the roofing of the overpass between the University of the Cordilleras and the Baguio City National High school has been dilapidated.

Baguio City Councilor Mylen Yaranon who chairs the committee on public works, for her part, called for a removal of the roofs of overpasses since overpasses are meant for people to pass through and not a place for people to converge.

“BCDEO is correct, once that facility is constructed by the DPWH, this will then be turned over to the city who would also have to maintain it. But if I were to be asked, I would rather have overpasses without roofs because all those who would use this will only pass through with their umbrellas,” Yaranon said.

The councilor recalled an incident in the past wherein a rape victim was found inside the ceiling of the overpass, aside from vendors using this as their storage area which prompted the city to remove the ceilings of all overpasses in the city.