THE Cebu City Government is already about 80 percent complete with its Spaghetti Wires Eradication Project, which started in 2019.
The program aims to provide maintenance to different areas in the city with spaghetti wires, or low hanging and overhead wires. These are wires that are tangled in a complicated web that takes a long time to comb through and arrange.
Cebu City Councilor Jerry Guardo said in a phone interview that they have continued their operations against spaghetti wires and have been responding to requests from different barangays in the city.
He said they started the operations in Colon and Osmeña Blvd. area, and they are now moving to midtown and uptown Cebu City.
Guardo said that on average, they recover 50 kilos of dead wire from Monday to Friday.
He said their team is composed of personnel from different telecommunication companies and they do the operation every day. Areas where they operate depend on their schedule, but they respond to requests immediately.
He said the project has been ongoing as they see it as part of the telco’s routine and maintenance job work, and as part of Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama’s program to eradicate spaghetti wires.
Guardo said the project is necessary as it helps make the city clean, especially now that the Rama administration is pushing for a Singapore-like city.
The councilor added that once all the spaghetti wires are eradicated, they are looking at putting them underground.
He said the City already received an unsolicited proposal on underground cabling, and once it is approved, the contractor can start the installation of the overhead wires.
Underground installation, he added, is necessary so as not to see a repeat of what happened during the onslaught of Typhoon Odette, when Cebu City was devastated, with electric poles toppled by the storm. (Kyle Andrei D. Acuña, NWSSU Intern)