The city government of Davao and the Davao Light Power Company (DLPC), Inc. officially switched on the San Pedro Street Underground Cabling Project on Thursday.
The switching on activity was presided by Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte, AboitizPower Distribution Unit corporate services head Jokin Aboitiz, Davao Light and Power Company Inc. president and chief operating officer Rodger Velasco, and heads of the different utility companies. It marked the completion of the second phase of the city’s Underground Cabling Project.
The project covers 0.6 kilometers of San Pedro Street from City Hall Drive up to corner Quirino Avenue. It’s the second of five phases under the City Ordinance No 0152-17, series of 2017, which requires all telecommunications companies, DLPC, and all other persons involved to convert overhead lines to an underground system.
It is also the goal of the project to improve the city’s aesthetics by constructing safer key city routes.
“The underground cabling project wouldn’t have been possible if not for the initiative of the local government of Davao City to create an internationally competitive image of Davao, opening doors to sustainable development and progress, as well as enhancing safety within the Central Business District,” said Velasco in his message.
He said because of the city government of Davao’s directive to the utility companies with overhead lines to place all electrical, telecommunication, and internet wires and cables, DLPC, along with the other utility companies in coordination with the City Engineer’s Office (CEO) commenced the works in burying wires and cables underground in the key areas of the city.
DLPC started the underground cabling works at San Pedro Street in March 2021.
Meanwhile, Fermin Edillon, head of reputation department of DLPC, said the company is targeting to complete the underground cabling at Magsaysay Avenue next year.
“Ongoing ang underground cabling about 45 percent complete na, which means limpyo and hapsay na ang dalan,” he said.
