City to ask Gwen to open Capitol Road

THE Cebu City government is planning to use the Capitol Road as a diversion road while work continues with the widening of the Don Gil Garcia St beside the Capitol compound.

Rafael Yap, head of the City Traffic Office Management (Citom), said he would ask for a meeting with Gov. Gwen Garcia to discuss the city’s request.

“Temporarily we will need the Capitol property to allow DPWH to finish the road project,” said Yap of the P28 million road widening project.

Mayor Michael Rama tapped Citom to talk with Garcia.

If the governor would permit it, private vehicles and PUJs from Escario St. heading for M. Velez St. and the Banawa area will have to make a right turn to the Capitol Road, through the compound, and exiting near a bakeshop along M. Velez Street.

Garcia said she was waiting for the city’s formal request before deciding on it. /Correspondent Edison A. De Los Angeles with Carmel Matus