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Residents of the hinterland barangay Buot Taup, who have enough trouble crossing their only passable road to Cebu City proper, were in for a rude disappointment when a portion of the road collapsed in last Tuesday's landslide.
Buot Taup barangay secretary Cristituto Bacayan told Cebu Daily News that their area needed a farm to market road since residents would have to cross at least one river when leaving their barangay.
The river would rise as high as eight feet during a heavy downpour, he said.
Vehicles should be ready to traverse both land, stones and water in going in and out of their barangay, Bacayan added.
“Sayang kaayo ba nga taga dinhi mi sa Cebu unya ang among mga ani adto mahalin sa Talisay (It's a waste since we are in Cebu City and yet our harvest is sold in Talisay City),” Bacayan said.
Martin Gacayan, a 41-year-old resident who partly owns a flower farm, said they would have to transport their flower harvest by foot by crossing a river before unloading them in a public utility vehicle (PUV) heading to Carbon Market.
He said it would be easier if they transport their flowers to Talisay City but the flower market is in Carbon Market in Cebu City.
Gacayan said there are 100 farmers like him who face the same problem, walking more than three kilometers to get a ride on a passenger vehicle.
“Dugay na mi sige pangayo dire og maayong dalan pero hantod karun wala pa gyud tagda ang amo hangyo (We have been asking this for sometime but nothing has been done yet),” he told .
City Councilor Gerardo Carillo, action officer of the Cebu City Disaster Coordinating Council (CCDCC), said he already asked the Department of Engineering and Public Works (DEPW) to look into the rehabilitation of the access road.
Bacayan said any rehabilitation would have to take into consideration the soil condition since it it susceptible to landslides.
Pag-asa Mactan weather forecaster Alex Padin said an Inter-tropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is prevalent over the Visayas and Mindanao./Reporter Marian Z. Codilla with a story from Correspondent Jhunnex Napallacan
