MANDAUE EYES MORE TRAFFIC AIDEs
MANDAUE City is eyeing to hire additional traffic enforcers.
At least 30 more are needed since the city’s traffic lights are now operated manually, said Edwin Ermac, chief of the Traffic Enforcement Agency of Mandaue (TEAM).
The traffic lights used to rely on electronic ground sensors to automatically adjust the sequence of lights based on the volume of traffic but lately the sensors have been malfunctioning.
Ermac said the TEAM has 200 personnel – 180 manning the streets while 20 are in charge of operating traffic lights.
Emac said the city government ditched plans to purchase high-tech traffic lights when the national government announced plans to build flyovers and underpass in the city.
A plan to purchase automatic traffic lights still needs to be referred to the city council for funding, said Ermac./CORRESPONDENT FE MARIE D. DUMABOC
WOMAN HURT IN ROBBERY
A 27-YEAR-OLD woman was hit in the head by a man who held her up at gunpoint in barangay Subangdaku, Mandaue City, last Monday dawn.
The victim Cheryl delos Reyes lost her shoulder bag to two motorcycle-riding men.
She was waiting for a ride at 5:30 a.m. when the holduppers showed up.
One man pionted a gun at her and grabbed her bag.
When the woman shouted for help, the man struck her with a pistol.
The robbers fled to an unknown direction.
The victim later identified one of the robbers in a police photo gallery of suspected criminals.
The woman identified a resident of barangay Cabancalan, Mandaue City whom police said was involved in a separate robbery last Nov. 9. REPORTER JUCELL MARIE P. CUYOS