THE Metro Manila Council has passed a resolution urging local government units in the National Capital Region to issue ordinances against dangling and tangled wires of telecommunications and electric posts in Metro Manila.
MMC president and San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora, together with Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chief Romando Artes and other NCR mayors, attended the meeting at the MMDA head office last Tuesday to discuss and solve the so-called “spaghetti wires” problem.
Under MMDA Resolution Number 24-16, Series of 2024, NCR cities were urged to “enact and adopt an ordinance regulating and monitoring the construction, installation and maintenance of distribution lines and other appurtenant structures and assemblies of public utilities within their jurisdiction territory.”
The order will be effective once all NCR mayors sign it within the week.
“These are old, sometimes decades-old wires of telco companies and networks installed on Meralco posts, which have accumulated and become tangled,” Zamora said.
Zamora added that LGUs may also conduct tracing and removal of unused telecom and electric wires, as well as limiting the number of allowed wires per post.
