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BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
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ILOILO City – Councilor Plaridel Nava is pressing for an ordinance that prohibits on-road parking in the city at all times. His targets are trucks and cargo vans.
On-road parking poses serious threat to public safety, said Nava, citing a recent early morning vehicular accident in Mandurriao district. A pickup crashed against a parked cargo truck. One teenager died and three others were injured.
The city has an existing “on-road parking ordinance” but the ban is only effective until 10 p.m. and this is being abused by truck drivers and owners.
“They deliberately convert and appropriate the roads as their parking areas or at least an extension of their garage, believing that the on-road parking ordinance is worthless during unholy hours,” said Nava.
The councilor said all roads must be free from any form of obstruction.
“The traffic must be free-flowing and not disrupted,” Nava stressed, but the city government appeared helpless to prohibit on-road parking.
For Nava, the problem “is deeply rooted and everything stems from the lack of discipline and discernment on the part of vehicle drivers and/or owners, and followed by the want of faithful and consistent implementation of traffic rules and regulations on the part of the executive branch.”/PN
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