Mayor wants road project on the pipeline

Even if the elections are only a month and three weeks away, Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said it isn’t too late to implement the Cebu Circumferential road project proposed under the Metro Cebu Development Project (MCDP) 3.

Rama, who chairs the Regional Development Council in Central Visayas (RDC-7) said the road project can address the growing traffic congestion in Metro Cebu area.

He said he will have the RDC-7 archives revisited to check on the status of the proposed circumferential road projects that will traverse the western part of Cebu.

Rama said even the transaxial road project proposed by the late vice governor Gregorio Sanchez was worth revisiting.

A traffic impact assessment study by Spaces and Systems of urban planner Adonis Pedro Compendio said traffic congestion is a growing problem in Metro Cebu and it cannot be addressed by road expansion projects or flyovers.

Compandio’s study said new road links are needed by Metro Cebu to disperse the volume of vehicles..

The study also mentioned that only the south coastal road project proposed in the Metro Cebu Development Project (MCDP) 3 was completed so far while the Cebu Circumferential Road project was never implemented.

Rama said the Cebu Circumferential road project will complement the city interior roads which he wanted opened to connect the mountain barangays of Pardo, Toong, Pamutan, Babag, Malubog, Busay, Budlaan and Talamban. Chief of Reporters Doris C. Bongcac