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188 junk cars removed in 8 weeks
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Posted on Jun 13 2023
Ramon “RB” Camacho
The Saipan Mayor’s Office removed 188 junk cars from villages during an eight-week operation, according to Saipan Mayor Ramon “RB” Camacho last Friday.
Speaking at the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee hearing on the Saipan Mayor’s Office’s proposed budget for 2024, Camacho said junk cars pose a huge problem in villages so they started removing these vehicles every Tuesday and Thursday, starting from the south side to the north side of the island.
Camacho said a recycling center later refused to continue accepting junk vehicles because they’re already overpacked. Another recycling center, however, just opened recently in Lower Base, he said, prompting them to reactivate the removal operation.
Camacho said that, despite the extraction of 188 junk cars during twice-a-week operations in eight weeks, there are still a lot of junk vehicles in villages.
In the case of repairs his office makes on secondary roads, Camacho said a lot of these roads—most of them in village interiors—are unpaved, so heavy rain makes these roads impassable.
Rain or shine, they continue repairing those roads as they don’t wait for complaints to come in, he added.
“We provide immediate action to those things because our concern is the safety of people, for emergency vehicles’ response,” he said.
Since the beginning of his administration on Jan. 9 to the present, Camacho said they have extracted 2,100 cubic yards of corals to rebuild these roads. He said the repairs are not just on one specific area, but are islandwide.
“2,100 is a lot of cubic yards,” Camacho said.
