A TOTAL of P5 million has been collected from public pay parking in the first half of 2022, said the Davao City Transport and Traffic Management Office (CTTMO).
However, Dionisio Abude, Chief of the CTTMO said this is lower than their target of at least P20 million in 2020-2021 from public pay parking due to the pandemic.
“It so happened that in April and May nag-lockdown ta in two months, mao tong revenue sa public pay parking almost P10 million lang, so succeeding na ni siya, mao ni atong nakita (we had a lockdown for two months, that's why our revenue from the public pay parking is just almost P10 million),” Abude said in an interview during the AFP-PNP Press Conference on July 20, 2022.
He said there are also areas where they did not collect pay parking fees, which resulted in a loss of P3 million.
that the street coverage was also one of the factors of not being able to collect the forecasted amount which cost them P3 million lost.
“Naligtaan namo nga during implementation that kanang CM Recto to City Hall Drive is wala ta naka-implement because gina-consider na siya nga maximum security square, in fact gipangtanggal namo ang mga signages (We were not able to implement the pay parking from CM Recto to City Hall Drive because it was considered as maximum security square. In fact, we removed all the signages in the areas),” Abude said.
Also, Abude said that ongoing construction and underground cabling has also affected their collection.
However, Abude said they are optimistic that they will achieve more than P10 million this year.
“Probably, niabot naman ta og level 1 medyo nitaas-taas na siya, so mosaka gyud ni siya from P10 million to P11 million (since we are already under [alert] level 1, our collection has increased and, most likely, by the end of this year we could achieve P11 million in collected fees),” Abude said.
Abude said that there are currently 11 existing public pay parking spaces in Davao City. However, according to the city’s Traffic Code, there should be 15 public pay parking spaces.
Abude said they were not able to establish all 15 because of limited funds. At present, they can only spend for the existing pay parking areas. Funds are allocated for the salary of public pay parking enforcers, signages, and the marking of parking slots, among others. KSD