- CHERYL G. CRUZ
Punong barangays Ma. Febe Legaspi of Handumanan and Lady Gles Gonzales-Pallen of Taculing have requested the city’s assistance on leaning and unstable electric posts, and loose and tangled electric and telecommunication wires in their areas.
Legaspi’s letter, addressed to the Negros Electric and Power Corporation and copy-furnished the Sangguniang Panlungsod and the Office of the City Mayor, took note of several utility posts within the barangay that are “now structurally compromised due to deterioration, leaning conditions, and excessive cable attachments, which may pose serious hazards to public safety and property.”
Handumanan is one of the most populous barangays in Bacolod, with thousands of residents, motorists, pedestrians, and commercial establishments relying daily on safe and reliable infrastructure, she said in the letter.
She pushed for immediate action on this “serious public safety concern on the increasing number of deteriorated, leaning, and over-congested utility posts, as well as dangling, abandoned, and unusable electrical and communication cables,” commonly referred to as spaghetti wires.
Legaspi called on NEPC to immediately inspect and assess all utility posts, and replace rotten, deteriorated, or structurally-unsafe poles as well as remove abandoned and dangling cables.
Gonzales-Pallen also aired a similar urgent concern on unstable electric posts and tangled electric and telecommunications wires in her barangay, noting that these pose imminent risks to public safety, property, and community welfare./CGC
