What’s Baclaran without street vendors?
The Metro Manila Development Authority has rounded up and assigned a specific area where street vendors can set up shop and sell their wares without disrupting traffic flow in the normally busy streets.
Starting December 18, the MMDA has allotted street vendors a one-by-two-meter area where they could set up a stall and sell their goods. Some 1000 street vendors were made to occupy the former jeepney terminal near the Redemptionist Church on Roxas Boulevard. Inquirer News reported that the vendors did not have to pay any fees and were even issued official identification cards by the MMDA.
The MMDA hopes this will help ease pedestrian and vehicle traffic in Baclaran. Question is, how long can they keep the vendors in the assigned area?
