City, DLPC switch on San Pedro St. underground cabling project

Thecity government of Davao and the Davao Light Power Company (DLPC), Inc. officially switched on the San Pedro Street Underground Cabling Project on Thursday.

The switching on activity was presided by Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte, AboitizPower Distribution

Unit corporate services head Jokin Aboitiz, Davao Light and Power Company Inc. president and chief operating officer Rodger Velasco, and heads of the different utility companies. It marked the completion of the second phase of the city’s Underground Cabling Project.

The project covers 0.6 kilometers of San Pedro Street from City Hall Drive up to corner Quirino Avenue. It’s the second of five phases under the City Ordinance No 0152-17, series of 2017, which requires all telecommunications companies, DLPC, and all other persons involved to con- vert overhead lines to an underground system.

It is also the goal of the project to improve the city’s aesthetics by constructing safer key city routes.

“The underground cabling project wouldn’t have been possible if not for the initiative of the lo-