A TOTAL of 20 intersections in downtown Davao will be closed on Saturday and Sunday to give way for the major Kadayawan Festival events which are Indak Indak sa Kadayawan and Pamulak sa Kadayawan.
Davao City Transport and Traffic Management Office (CTTMO) head retired superintendent Dionisio Abude said on Wednesday, August 15, that starting 2 a.m. on August 18, there will be road closure along Roxas Avenue, C.M. Recto St., Pelayo St. and San Pedro St until 4 p.m. on Sunday, thus, parking on these areas is highly discouraged.
The road closure was approved by the Sangguniang Panglungsod.
Motorists are reminded by the (CTTMO) not to park their vehicles on identified routes that will be used for the Kadayawan Festival activities.
Vehicles coming from A. Pichon and C.M. Recto streets and Quimpo Boulevard will be directed to Rizal-Bonifacio since the San Pedro Street is closed to traffic starting tonight, August 16, due to concerts that will take place in the area.
Just like last year, the route for both Indak Indak and Pamulak will start from Roxas Avenue then left turn to C.M. Recto Street, right turn to Bonifacio Street all the way to Pelayo Street where participants will go left to San Pedro Street enroute to Rizal Park.
During the Indak-Indak, there will be three showdown areas located in front of Marco Polo Hotel Davao then near the Apo View Hotel and at Rizal Park.
Streets to be closed are Roxas Boulevard, Jacinto-Aurora, Jacinto-Pag-Asa, Jacinto-Zamora, Jacinto-Padre Faura, Jacinto-Gomez as well as all the streets leading to Roxas Avenue including Mabini Aurora, Mabini-Pag-Asa, Mabini-Padre Faura and Mabini-Padre Gomez.
Also streets leading to Quirino Avenue including Ilustre Camus, Ilustre General Luna, Pichon-Bolton, Pichon-Anda up to San Pedro-Boulevard near the Davao City Police Office (DCPO) and Palma Gil Ponciano will be closed.
To facilitate the smooth flow of traffic, he said that they will step up stricter implementation in their 20 second loading and unloading policy in the yellow box to avoid traffic build up on major streets in downtown Davao.
They will also deploy more than 300 traffic enforcers and 125 Traffic Community Network to augment the force.