Taboan market now much cleaner

CEBU, Philippines —  More Cebuanos and tourists alike are expected to visit the Taboan Public Market, which offers Cebu’s famous dried fishes and local delicacies, now that it is getting cleaner and free from illegally parked vehicles.

The area has been cleaned after Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama’s walk-through in San Nicolas Proper and other neighboring barangays late last July.

San Nicolas Proper barangay captain Clifford Jude Niñal pledged to support Rama’s vision of a Singapore-like city by helping the city clean, green, lively, and beautiful including in his barangay.

Niñal took the opportunity to ask for the City’s help in clearing the sidewalk that became a garbage “hotspot”. Now it has a mini garden in it.

After that, PROBE, CESET, and other concerned departments proceeded with the clearing operations at Taboan market itself.

Illegal parking of vehicles day in and day out had also been a long-time problem in the barangay, together with improper garbage disposal.

A month after, the area is now cleared from “overstaying” vehicles, cleaned and asphalted and is also expected to have a mini garden in the area.

Niñal just hopes the city government will designate a barangay environment officer and police around the area so that cleanliness and order in the area will be maintained.

Rama and Niñal have also agreed to put a night market in another area near Taboan just like that in Carbon Market.

Meanwhile, more improvements are up in the Carbon Market area with the clearing of MC Briones to unit 2 area.

Wendel Cenas, market administrator, said they are now in consultation with close to 200 more vendors to be transferred to occupying module 3 and Pawas to a more appropriate area.

Cenas explained that they are serious in clearing the area to recover the road for better flow of traffic.

In another development, the City Government of Cebu together with the Cebu2World, a subsidiary of Megawide, will have its ceremonial ground-breaking of the Freedom Park at Carbon Market today. — Decemay P. Padilla, JMD (FREEMAN)