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BY MERIANNE GRACE EREÑETA
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ILOILO City – Two aides of Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog gave conflicting answers when asked about the oversight committee that should have been created for the effective enforcement of the ordinance setting speed limits on motor vehicles.
“The oversight committee was already created. Dugay na ina siya,” said Atty. Mark Piad, spokesperson of Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog.
He denied Councilor Joshua Alim’s claim that Mabilog failed to create the oversight committee more than a year after Regulation Ordinance No. 2015-283 was approved in June last year.
According to Piad, the committee was composed of the Transportation Management and Traffic Regulation Office (TMTRO) and police officers, among others.
“Continuously naga-meet (sila),” he said.
TMTRO chief Robert Foerster, however, said he wasn’t sure about the committee’s existence. He had no idea about it, he said.
Mabilog appointed Foerster, a retired police officer, to the TMTRO in March this year.
Alim, author of Regulation Ordinance No. 2015-283, said if indeed there’s such a committee, “diin sila?”
“They should monitor the ordinance’s implementation and make recommendations kun ano pa ang kulang,” said Alim.
But while Piad and Foerster could not seem to agree on the oversight committee’s existence, both confirmed the city government still does not have radar speed guns that could effectively enforce Regulation Ordinance No. 2015-283.
“Purchasing speed guns is part of the proposed Intelligent Transport System (ITS) for the city. The mayor proposed nga tani it should be implemented by phase,” said Piad, saying it is costly.
A radar speed gun measures the speed of moving objects. It may be hand-held, vehicle-mounted or static.
In enforcing Regulation Ordinance No. 2015-283, Foerster said traffic aides should not subjectively determine whether a vehicle is overspeeding or not.
The other day, Alim urged Mabilog to enforce the ordinance that the councilor authored.
“Asta subong wala gid nila na-implement. Gin hingagaw ko ina pasar to prevent vehicular accidents,” said Alim.
Overspeeding was blamed for Saturday night’s crashing of a sports car on Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr. Avenue in Barangay Dungon B, Jaro district. One young woman died./PN
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