Some might argue it would be pointless discussing the unavoidable. But it would be even worse if we do not. At the very least concepts might be floated close to which may –just may well– prod those in authority to take the appropriate course. Of program, I am conversing about Metro Cebu’s worsening site visitors congestion. Particularly in Cebu City considering that it is in which it generally begins and propagates to the rest. And it’s starting now.

Let’s just pound in the actuality that traffic congestion is not a 1-time issue that you solve and voila! It disappears permanently. Rather, it is a never ever-ending saga. As the population grows, car possession grows, and whatsoever road space we put together will quicker or afterwards be filled up. Unless of course we truly shift to general public mass transportation, we’d always cyclically engage in this cat-and-mouse recreation of purchasing-autos-building-highway room syndrome. Till we run out of room.

Cebu City’s distinct difficulty is that it is the heart of the metropolis. By alone it currently creates much more of the journeys per working day, and then we include all the trips created in the south passing through heading to the north and to Mactan Island and vice-versa. Which is the explanation why there is a need for a metro-broad investigation and issue-solving in conditions of targeted traffic, especially with the opening of CCLEX. When the Lapu-Lapu Expressway opens in a calendar year or two, the presently-congested Cebu South Coastal Highway (CSCR) would be stretched to the restrictions. I do not brain –I already bicycle fifty percent of the time. But woe to these who are helplessly dependent on their automobiles for transport.

The recent sporadic gridlock in several backlinks today is contributed to some extent by the incapability of nearby site visitors administrators to distinguish amongst move-via and regional traffic expressways and feeder or metropolis streets, accentuated by the introduction of intersections and targeted traffic lights on highways not created for these kinds of. Added to that is the use of a targeted traffic light method which are supposedly adaptive but obviously are not, with counters which do not mirror the targeted traffic on the ground.

For years, Cebu City boasted of the ideal visitors mild program in the world, the SCATS, or Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Site visitors Program, till the producer stopped producing spare components and upgrades. We’re now trapped with a “new” a single, which does not coordinate at all, operates by alone, and does not even have a handle system to converse of if my inside of information is right. And which is not compensated up nevertheless.

For us in Cebu Metropolis, we just have to endure. Nicely, not just us but the relaxation of Metro Cebu. led traffic signal light manufacturers is supposedly the expressway from the Talisay to the north, till they reworked it into a regional road. Collectively with CCLEX, the two also served as the main quick lane to Mactan Island and again, yet again till intersections were inserted. And the crucial url to watch is F. Vestil Street. Wait around until the development on the other aspect of the highway is concluded –that’s a monstrous gridlock ready to take place.