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Everyday
around Taguig, ongoing projects speak of
the city’s progress and preparedness.
Taguig’s own Fort Bonifacio Global
City is a testament to modern infrastructure,
where traffic flows smoothly on well-planned
streets. There is no shortage of electricity
or clean drinking water. Gas lines and a
state-of-the-art fiber-optic network are
laid safely underground without disrupting
the cosmopolitan landscape It’s the
same storythroughout the City where a readiness
for the future is evident in close to a
thousand completed infrastructure projects,
from road networks to drainage systems.
All Clear
Motorists can now safely drive down C-5
Road, where the city government installed
322 units of 250-watt street lamps—in
collaboration with Metro Manila Development
Authority, PAGCOR and DPWH.
Water shortages are fast becoming issues
of the past. The Taguig Local Utility Board
in cooperation with the Manila Water has
set up new water networks; for 2005 alone,
LUB lay down seventeen (17) pipelining projects
all over the city. So far, more than 70%
of Taguig receives adequate water supply.
Flooding is now less likely in Taguig with
the city working overtime to clean, dredge
and rehabilitate all the creeks, waterways
and rivers in Taguig.
Waste Not
Clean and Green manpower keeps Taguig’s
streets clean on a fastidious basis, tasked
to keep roads and sidewalks waste-free.
Even city officials and employees have joined
the Clean and Green bandwagon as they volunteer
on weekends to clear up streets and waterways
of refuse. As part of the clean environment
campaign, the local government is also educating
constituents on proper waste segregation,
which has greatly improved garbage collection
and maintained a cleaner environment.
Homes for all
Responding to the housing needs of the city’s
poor and homeless, the city government with
the Local Housing Board has:
> Partnered with Habitat for Humanity,
to build 108 low cost housing units and
26 row houses.
> Distributed more than 4,000 Certificates
of Eligibility for Lot Allocation.
> Assisted the urban poor through the
Community Mortgage Program, made possible
by a loan with the National Home Mortgage
and Finance Corporation.
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