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Tuguegarao City Traffic Summit

Vice Mayor Bienvenido C. De Guzman II


To our City Mayor, Atty. Engelbert C. Caronan, to my collegues in the
6th City Council, to our invited speakers, Regional Director of the
Department of Interior and Local Government Eng. Marlo Iringan, Land
Transportation Office Region 02, represented by Administrative Officer
Manuel Baricaua, Engr. Roger Agustin of the District Office of the
Department of Public Works and Highways, P/Insp Melchor Pascua of the
Philippine National Police Region 02 Highway Patrol Group, To the
President, Officers and Representatives of the different transportation
organizations, the Vans, Tricycles, jeepneys and others, to the members of
the civil society, to the riding public, to our friends from the media, to our
guest and visitors! Mainit na umaga po sa ating lahat and welcome to the
City of Tuguegarao.
Today we have invited different stakeholders in the transportation
sector to join us in crafting solutions to the growing problem on traffic of our
City. To everyone present here today again I welcome you to the very First
Traffic and Road Safety Summit.
Just to give everyone a brief background on why this summit was
conceptualized, as this started way back, when former Mayor Atty. Jeff
Soriano commissioned the Metro Manila Development Authority headed by
Chairman Francis Tolentino to study and give recommendations to the
growing traffic problems of the City. But because of the changes in
leadership the idea was put on hold. Now through the efforts of the 6th City
Council resolution no. 140-2014 a resolution approving the conduct of a
road safety and traffic summit by the 6th city council.. This summit aims to
bring forth solution/s and additional information in terms of road safety and
the growing traffic problem of the City.
Also, in this summit we have invited expert speakers and lecturers in
the different fields related to road safety and traffic management, you will
all be given an equal opportunity to ask questions directly to the persons in
charge of your concerns. We have also invited the different leaders and
representatives of neighboring municipalities to grace this event and for
them to be able to prepare better on this really challenging problem on
traffic. Later this afternoon, we are fortunate that Chairman Francis
Tolentino will be attending this event and will personally present to us the
findings and recommendations of the panel created by MMDA that studied
our traffic situation. We are lucky because we can ask him not only in
relation to his presentation but also on the disaster preparedness model,
plan and climate change adaptation strategies of the MMDA that will be
useful to our City and the different Local Government Units present here
today.
Let me also take this opportunity to thank the prime movers of this
summit, the organizers headed by my very active colleagues in the City
Council, the Department heads of the City, the Secretariat, Dr. Victor Perez

of the University Of Cagayan Valley for the venue and for hosting this
event. Dr. Perez, Thank you very much and to all of you present here
today, thank you for standing up and making a difference.
Hindi ko na po patatagalin pa ang aking mensahe. Mainit na
tinatangap po naming kayong lahat dito sa pinakamainit na lugar sa
pilipinas, sabi nga po nila maaraw sa tuguegarao! I welcome you all to this
first ever Road Safety and Traffic Summit! Mabuhay po ang Sector ng
Transportation mabuhay ang Siyudad ng Tuguegarao!

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