BILLBOARDS BACKGROUNDER
Sources: DPWH, iNEWS, INQ7, MMDA, OP, Senate website, House of Representatives website
Last updated: October 4, 2006
BILLBOARD VIOLATIONS
Source: DPWH-NCR
Common billboard violations
*no permit
*set up near power lines
*no maintenance (e.g. rusty structure)
*too large
*within the road right-of-way*
*road right-of-way (RROW): a kind of public open space for the continuous flow of pedestrian and vehicular traffic that must be free of all forms of prohibited physical obstructions
NUMBER OF ILLEGAL/UNSAFE BILLBOARDS IN METRO MANILA
as of November 12, 2007
Source: DPWH-NCR
--------------------w/in the road----- outside the road
--------------------right-of-way---------right-of-way------- Total
dismantled--------------4,411---------------139------------- 4,550
for dismantling-----------602-------------1,257--------------1,859
Total-------------------5,013-------------1,396--------------6,409
Report billboard concerns (illegal/ unstable, potentially unsafe) to DPWH: (02) 304-3913, (02) 304-3713
