WE ARE HERE

Some may well argue it would be pointless discussing the inescapable. But it would be worse if we do not. At the very least concepts may be floated around which may –just may– prod people in authority to take the appropriate course. Of program, I am talking about Metro Cebu’s worsening site visitors congestion. Especially in Cebu Town given that it is where it usually starts off and propagates to the rest. And it is starting up now.

Let us just pound in the fact that site visitors congestion is not a a single-time situation that you fix and voila! It disappears permanently. Instead, it is a never-ending saga. As the inhabitants grows, vehicle possession grows, and no matter what road space we prepare will faster or later be loaded up. Unless we actually shift to general public mass transportation, we’d usually cyclically perform this cat-and-mouse sport of purchasing-vehicles-constructing-highway place syndrome. Until finally led traffic signal light manufacturers operate out of space.

Cebu City’s specific problem is that it is the centre of the metropolis. By alone it previously produces much more of the journeys for every working day, and then we include all the trips made in the south passing via going to the north and to Mactan Island and vice-versa. Which is the reason why there is a need for a metro-broad analysis and dilemma-fixing in terms of targeted traffic, especially with the opening of CCLEX. When the Lapu-Lapu Expressway opens in a calendar year or two, the already-congested Cebu South Coastal Road (CSCR) would be stretched to the boundaries. I don’t brain –I currently bike 50 % of the time. But woe to individuals who are helplessly dependent on their automobiles for transportation.

The current sporadic gridlock in many back links these days is contributed to some extent by the incapacity of nearby site visitors supervisors to distinguish between pass-through and regional targeted traffic expressways and feeder or metropolis roads, accentuated by the introduction of intersections and visitors lights on highways not created for this kind of. Added to that is the use of a targeted traffic light method which are supposedly adaptive but clearly are not, with counters which do not reflect the site visitors on the ground.

For a long time, Cebu Metropolis boasted of the greatest site visitors gentle system in the planet, the SCATS, or Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Site visitors Program, right up until the maker stopped generating spare areas and upgrades. We’re now stuck with a “new” one, which does not coordinate at all, runs by alone, and does not even have a handle technique to speak of if my within data is correct. And which is not compensated up however.

For us in Cebu Town, we just have to endure. Effectively, not just us but the relaxation of Metro Cebu. CSCR is supposedly the expressway from the Talisay to the north, until finally they reworked it into a regional road. Together with CCLEX, the two also served as the major quick lane to Mactan Island and back, once again right up until intersections were inserted. And the important url to watch is F. Vestil Street. Hold out right up until the growth on the other facet of the street is finished –that’s a monstrous gridlock waiting around to happen.