DPS acting Commissioner Santiago F. Tudela said “everybody is helpless” whenever power outages occur, but he is asking motorists to cooperate with the police.
“We will be printing out educational fliers to educate the public about four-way and three-way stop signs,” Tudela said.
“In the four-way stop rule, the first vehicle to stop at the intersection has the right of way, and when two cars arrive at the same time, the car on the right goes first,” he added.
Motorists can expect these signs erected at four-way intersections like the intersection on Middle Road near the Commonwealth Health Center and in Garapan-Middle Road near Happy Market.
According to Tudela, similar signs will also be erected at three-way and two-way intersections all over the island.
“I hope that it will be easy for our drivers to understand and our target of publishing the fliers is within this week, or as soon as possible,” he added.
Capt. Lawrence Camacho, the police division commander, said understand the urgency of the problem at intersections during power outages based on the number of complaints they get from the community.
“On regular days we receive 10 to 15 complaints per shift, but on busy days we get as many as 30 to 40 complaints per shift — our telephones are eternally ringing but we are not playing deaf and blind to the problem,” Camacho said.
Since Sunday, police officers are now directing the flow of traffic at the four major intersections in Garapan, San Jose and Chalan Kiya during power outages.
