BAGUIO CITY—Tourists planning to watch the street dances on Saturday and the floral parade on Sunday in this year’s Panagbenga (Baguio Flower Festival) would need to brace for slow traffic flow and garbage collection. Traffic policemen are coordinating with their counterparts overseeing the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEx) to ease traffic flow to this city for the festival. Mayor Mauricio Domogan, who chairs the Baguio Flower Festival Foundation Inc., said he was caught in a traffic gridlock on TPLEx in Binalonan town, Pangasinan province, on Feb. 15. The city government also directed its garbage hauling contractor to ship out trash to a landfill in Urdaneta City. An average of 400 tons of waste is generated on festival weekend, based on previous Panagbenga.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 22, 2018 22:07 UTC