‘Vehicles illegally parked will be towed’
MAYOR BENG CLIMACO has renewed her calls to motorists and automotive owners to strictly follow traffic rules and regulations and city ordinances as the local government started towing illegally parked vehicles in downtown Zamboanga.
“Just follow the law and there will be no problem, but if you break our traffic rules or local laws then your actions shall have its consequences. We need discipline here and I urge everyone to follow the law,” Climaco said.
City Administrator Apple Go said members of the Task Force Ordinance and policemen have begun towing illegally parked vehicles. She said they are only implementing City Ordinance 248 otherwise known as “The Revised Traffic Code of Zamboanga City” which also prescribes fines on those who violate the law.
Go said the towing operations will be sustained in adherence to the ordinance that seeks to clear the streets of illegally parked vehicles.
She said under the ordinance, drivers and operators whose vehicles have been towed for illegal parking shall pay the fines of P800 and storage fee of P50 per day for light vehicles with engine displacement of 0 to 1600cc; and medium vehicles with engine displacement of 1601 to 2800cc shall pay P1,000 towing fee and P75 per day as storage fee.
And heavy vehicles with engine displacement of 2801cc and above shall pay P1,200 towing fee and P100 a day for storage. She said stalled and illegally parked vehicles will be towed, as well as those “attended and unattended” illegally parked vehicles.
“All towed vehicles will be impounded at the City Engineer’s Office facility in Barangay San Roque,” Go said.
Just recently, The Zamboanga Post published several photos showing illegally parked vehicles occupying the stretch of a covered path walk at Pettit Barracks.
Despite the “No Parking” signs, private vehicles, motorcycles and even passenger jeeps turned the covered path into a private garage and depriving pedestrians of their safety and forcing them to walk on the streets.
There were no barangay officials and barangay watchmen or policemen to impose the laws on illegal parking and it took Climaco and Go and her assistant Cesar Raz to personally implement the ordinance and ordered authorities to issue a traffic citation to all violators.
“The law applies to all. We will implement the ordinances and put discipline on the road and this is for the benefit of all, the public in particular,” Raz told The Zamboanga Post.
Now, the covered path walk in Pettit Barracks had been cleared of illegally parked vehicles. (Zamboanga Post)
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