Some may well argue it would be pointless talking about the inescapable. But it would be even worse if we really do not. At the really least ideas could be floated all around which may –just may– prod these in authority to consider the right direction. Of system, I am talking about Metro Cebu’s worsening site visitors congestion. Notably in Cebu Town considering that it is exactly where it generally starts and propagates to the relaxation. And it is starting now.

Let’s just pound in the truth that site visitors congestion is not a one-time problem that you solve and voila! It disappears forever. Rather, it is a never-ending saga. As the population grows, automobile ownership grows, and no matter what highway area we get ready will quicker or later be stuffed up. Unless of course we truly change to community mass transportation, we’d constantly cyclically play this cat-and-mouse sport of getting-autos-creating-road space syndrome. Until we run out of area.

Cebu City’s particular issue is that it is the heart of the metropolis. By itself it presently makes far more of the excursions per working day, and then we add all the journeys created in the south passing by means of going to the north and to Mactan Island and vice-versa. Which is the purpose why there is a want for a metro-wide evaluation and difficulty-fixing in terms of visitors, particularly with the opening of CCLEX. When traffic light manufacturer -Lapu Expressway opens in a year or two, the already-congested Cebu South Coastal Highway (CSCR) would be stretched to the restrictions. I don’t brain –I currently bicycle 50 percent of the time. But woe to these who are helplessly dependent on their automobiles for transportation.

The recent sporadic gridlock in many hyperlinks these days is contributed to some extent by the incapacity of nearby site visitors supervisors to distinguish amongst go-by means of and nearby traffic expressways and feeder or town roads, accentuated by the introduction of intersections and visitors lights on highways not designed for such. Added to that is the use of a visitors light program which are supposedly adaptive but clearly are not, with counters which do not replicate the site visitors on the ground.

For years, Cebu Town boasted of the greatest site visitors light program in the planet, the SCATS, or Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Targeted traffic System, until finally the manufacturer stopped making spare parts and upgrades. We’re now stuck with a “new” 1, which does not coordinate at all, operates by itself, and does not even have a control system to talk of if my inside of info is correct. And which is not paid up but.

For us in Cebu City, we just have to endure. Properly, not just us but the rest of Metro Cebu. CSCR is supposedly the expressway from the Talisay to the north, till they remodeled it into a regional road. Jointly with CCLEX, the two also served as the major quick lane to Mactan Island and back, again until finally intersections ended up inserted. And the key link to watch is F. Vestil Road. Wait around till the growth on the other facet of the road is finished –which is a monstrous gridlock waiting around to take place.