Roads forgotten for 40 years

My wife Trinidad and I were among those invited by our son Freddie and his wife Nilda to a dinner at their residence on Mars Street, Pasig Subdivision here in Daet, last April. Upon entering Mars Street, the car we were riding in had to negotiate a rugged and dilapidated road.

I asked our son if, since its turnover by the developer to the Daet municipal government, local officials had introduced improvements and repairs on the road. His answer: no, not ever; to be sure, since their transfer to the subdivision and that was about 40 years ago. Making things worse, when it rains hard the entire subdivision always goes underwater.

Why has Daet Mayor Tito Sarion, now six years in office, not done anything to improve the Pasig Subdivision’s potholed streets, which are now municipal roads? Are the people living there not his constituents? And what did his predecessor, the mayor for two terms and now a member of the House of Representatives, Elmer E. Panotes, do when he was the town’s chief executive?

Not only that. Because of the road’s miserable state of disrepair, tricycle drivers refuse to accept passengers going to and from the subdivision.

—GODOFREDO O. PETEZA,

JP Rizal Street, Barangay Camambugan,

Daet, Camarines Norte 4600