After the allocation of 60 days for municipal units to clear their streets, the DILG should bend to implement its order to the end, to ensure that no corruption returns in the picture, as it already seems to see when printing posters, selling stickers and even charging parking lots, as some Barangays claim. MMDA officials have said that there are at least two metro city shackles, there is no one-sided parking at any time. If these cities can do it, why can`t others? Here, too, the DILG order does not say “one clear page.” After receiving the DILG memo, some enterprising Barangay officials quickly embarked without consulting their community on the “unilateral” parking system, ignoring the clear message of the provision that “no parking” is not parking, not “unilateral parking”. Immediately, demonstrations were posted in the streets where residents were invited to park their vehicles on one side, from the 1st to the 15th day, and on the other, from the 16th to the 30th day. Stickers for sale to residents who owned vehicles would allow them to park along one of the streets of Barangay without their make-up. How much did the posters and stickers cost? This scheme is a blow to the game. In a few months, the Carmageddon who took his vacation will transform our streets into huge car parks. Although this is inevitable due to the season, we can make our roads more welcoming to everyone, only if we cease to use the public road as parking. In addition, the leaflet also warned that the vehicle to keep on the road would force them to drive “at the owners` expense.” He even claimed that Mandaluyong LGU`s new parking ban policy was not supported by a regulation that would be contrary to unilateral parking previously implemented and supported by regulations.

Many residents park on the streets because they do not have garages or other vehicles that do not fit in their garages. Others use their garage as a “bodega” for items or household items. Neighbourhood food also uses streets for vans. Restaurants that do not have facilities for customer car parks, they receive them in the same way, thanks to the public road they end up using. Illegal parking – in fact garaging – aggravates already important transport and deprives workers, workers and students who rush to work and schools from the advantage of smooth, safe and efficient traffic. All the time, sidewalks have been dispossessed for stalls, offices, extra rooms, dirty kitchens and what is not expropriated. Meanwhile, poor sellers had to sell their goods on the street. According to the user, he received a leaflet from the municipality saying, “No parking on both sides according to the DILG memo.” In addition, the author did not specify whether it was the city or the Barangay government that adopted the regulation. According to Bong Nebrija, the MMDA`s director of transport, Barangay governments cannot set up unilateral road car parks without the green light from the region`s mayor. If on-street parking is no longer possible, where should vehicle owners park their vehicles if they can no longer expand their land to house a car? Fortunately, it wasn`t just Mandaluyong that implemented it.

Not so long ago, San Juan City Mayor Francis Zamora suspended paid parking on busy streets near Greenhills. Meanwhile, the Quezon City government did not realize the consequences by targeting suppliers and illegal vehicles that were blocking public roads. With President Duterte`s order to Interior Minister Eduardo Ao in his State of the Union address to remove barriers to public roads and sidewalks, the Ministry of Interior and Local Administration (DILG) immediately issued a memorandum to all mayors and presidents of Barangay.