THE sidewalk vendors along Roxas Boulevard near the historic Baclaran Church in Parañaque City have often been blamed for the traffic congestion in the area.
Today, the Parañaque City government is building a P40-million permanent facility to house the sidewalk vendors eventually. In the meantime, while awaiting the construction of the planned facility, the Parañaque City government last Sunday installed tents along Roxas Boulevard, where the sidewalk vendors can sell their goods.
In a meeting with Chairman Danilo D. Lim of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and other MMDA officials of the agency last Friday, Mayor Edwin Olivarez said 1,500 vendors will temporarily be transferred along Roxas Boulevard where the city allocated 1,200 tents. Olivarez added the tents would provide 2 meters of space for each vendor.
“We will put concrete barriers so that the vendors and consumers will not exceed, the lanes we allocated for the vehicles,” Olivarez said.
The mayor added the city government plans to build a facility for illegal vendors around the Redemptorist Church in Baclaran on a 1-hectare vacant land owned by the city government in front of Baclaran Church along Roxas Boulevard.
The facility will help the public have an easy access to the Department of Transportation’s Light Rail Transit Line 1 Cavite Extension 1 project. The P64.9-billion LRT 1 extension project will extend trips from Baclaran Station to the future Niyog Station in Bacoor City, Cavite.
Olivarez said the flea-market project has the backing of President Duterte and the MMDA since it will decongest traffic in the Baclaran area.
Lim said the Metro Manila Council, the policy-making body of the agency, already approved the proposed plan which is the permanent place for the vendors.
“As you can see some vendors here have occupied even the service road. This is why we really need to clear this area so the flow of traffic along this road will be smooth,” Lim added.
Meanwhile, MMDA Acting General Manager Jojo Garcia said the traffic congestion in the area “has been a problem for more than 50 years.”
“As Chairman Lim said, we are not anti-vendor. We just want to correct things, such as solving the traffic congestion that has been a problem for more than five decades. Hopefully, this solution will be the answer to this problem here in Baclaran,” Garcia added.
Today, the Parañaque City government is building a P40-million permanent facility to house the sidewalk vendors eventually. In the meantime, while awaiting the construction of the planned facility, the Parañaque City government last Sunday installed tents along Roxas Boulevard, where the sidewalk vendors can sell their goods.
In a meeting with Chairman Danilo D. Lim of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and other MMDA officials of the agency last Friday, Mayor Edwin Olivarez said 1,500 vendors will temporarily be transferred along Roxas Boulevard where the city allocated 1,200 tents. Olivarez added the tents would provide 2 meters of space for each vendor.
“We will put concrete barriers so that the vendors and consumers will not exceed, the lanes we allocated for the vehicles,” Olivarez said.
The mayor added the city government plans to build a facility for illegal vendors around the Redemptorist Church in Baclaran on a 1-hectare vacant land owned by the city government in front of Baclaran Church along Roxas Boulevard.
The facility will help the public have an easy access to the Department of Transportation’s Light Rail Transit Line 1 Cavite Extension 1 project. The P64.9-billion LRT 1 extension project will extend trips from Baclaran Station to the future Niyog Station in Bacoor City, Cavite.
Olivarez said the flea-market project has the backing of President Duterte and the MMDA since it will decongest traffic in the Baclaran area.
Lim said the Metro Manila Council, the policy-making body of the agency, already approved the proposed plan which is the permanent place for the vendors.
“As you can see some vendors here have occupied even the service road. This is why we really need to clear this area so the flow of traffic along this road will be smooth,” Lim added.
Meanwhile, MMDA Acting General Manager Jojo Garcia said the traffic congestion in the area “has been a problem for more than 50 years.”
“As Chairman Lim said, we are not anti-vendor. We just want to correct things, such as solving the traffic congestion that has been a problem for more than five decades. Hopefully, this solution will be the answer to this problem here in Baclaran,” Garcia added.
