Baguio City has started clearing tangled and sagging cables in its busiest commercial areas, aiming to fix long-standing safety hazards and improve the city’s appearance before the new year. Workers from the Public Order and Safety Division (POSD), together with telecom companies, spent the week removing what residents call “spaghetti wires.”

POSD officer Daryll Longid said they acted after repeated public complaints.

“Napakababa ng mga lines. Very, very unsightly rin sila so we’ve been receiving complaints,” he said.

The cleanup covers the Central Business District and several barangays where many wires have long been unused. All removed cables are temporarily stored at the POSD office before being turned over to telecom companies for proper segregation.

Longid explained that coordination among companies remains a challenge.

“May policy kasi itong mga telco companies na ayaw nilang galawin ‘yung hindi nila linya. And that would not solve the problem in the area kung may maiiwan pa sagging,” he said.

The initiative is part of the city’s “Dangling Wires Team,” created in 2023 under Executive Order No. 04 to fix the growing tangle of overhead cables in Baguio. Barangay officials are also helping identify other problematic wires.

The city aims to finish clearing all dangling wires within the entire Central Business District by the first quarter of 2026.