Solon urges barangays to adopt highway or shoreline

Wednesday, 27 April 2011 10:40

A legislator today moved to address the problem of cleanliness and orderliness that usually plague national highways and shorelines by proposing the mandatory adoption by barangays of highways or shorelines within their jurisdiction.

Rep. Roger Mercado (Lone District, Southern Leyte), Chairman of the House Committee on Transportation, filed House Bill 4398 which gives barangays along national highways or shorelines the responsibility to keep these clean and orderly.

"Since the national government is often not in a position to regularly monitor the status of national highways and shorelines stretching thousands of kilometers nationwide, it is only fitting that barangays shall take the responsibility of keeping these highways and shorelines clean and orderly," Mercado said.

Under the measure, all barangays along national highways or roadways or shorelines shall adopt a highway or a shoreline and maintain its cleanliness.

Also, the barangays shall keep national highways, roadways or shorelines free of temporary or permanent structures that may hamper the flow of traffic or destroy the beauty of the shoreline.

The bill tasks the barangay chairman or the officer-in-charge to implement such order.

source: www.congress.gov.ph

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