The local government of Manila had accelerated their full manpower to ensure the safety of an expected hundreds of thousand devotees who will be joining the big procession of the Black Nazarene Tuesday, 9 January.

Upon instruction of Manila Mayor Honey Lacuna, the Department of Public Services, Manila Traffic and Parking Bureau and Department of Engineering and Public Works will play important roles during the D-day of the Traslacion 2024.

Since the the Local government have announced the back to normal pre-pandemic celebration of the feast of the Black Nazarene, the focus now is to clean sweep the concrete roads where the procession route will pass.

In an interview with Kylie Amurao, director for DPS, she explained that the roads and streets where the Nazarene will pass will be swept clean, fully flushed to protect barefoot devotees from getting wounded by any kind of sharp objects.

"Upon instruction of Mayor Lacuna during the meeting she stressed seeing to it that at least routes of roads and street where the Nazarene will pass should be cleaned and cleared of any sharp objects like broken glass, banana cue sticks and others in protection of barefooted devotees who will join the long procession on Tuesday" Amurao siad.

Traffic and parking along the roads and sidewalks will not be allowed particularly the Quiapo vicinity to ensure accomodating hundreds of thousand people  were all the traffic officers will be deployed in full force at Quiapo.

"We will see to it to at least controll parking and all other road users to pass the route of the procession starting in the Quirinoi Grandstand until it reaches back at the end at Quiapo Church," according to MTPB chief Zenaida Viaje.