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Thursday, June 26, 2003
Colon test extended again
By Charmaine Y. Rodriguez
THE Cebu City Council agreed to extend until July 31 the opening of Colon, Magallanes and D. Jakosalem Sts. to two-way traffic and adopting the rerouting scheme implemented by the local traffic body since April.
The third extension will allow the council to come up with a decision on whether to adopt the changes implemented under the experiment or reject them.
This after the presentation of the Cebu City Traffic Operations Management (Citom) last Monday failed to convince the City Council to make permanent the two-way traffic scheme.
For one, Citom lacked data on the density of private vehicles and passenger jeepneys on Colon St. when this was still a one-way street.
The data on the density of passenger jeepneys is needed for the council to decide on proposals to convert one-way streets to two-way and to reroute jeepneys.
Councilor Procopio Fernandez, chairman of the committee on police, traffic and public safety, would have wanted the council to approve a measure allowing the experiment to continue until the committee on laws can make a report on the draft ordinance.
He said that by tomorrow, Citom is expected to be ready with the draft measure that proposes to make the scheme permanent.
But Councilor Jocelyn Pesquera, who claims to have suffered from the changes implemented by Citom, asked Fernandez yesterday to clearly state until when the experiment will be extended.
She also objected to the approval of the resolution implementing the rerouting scheme.
Since the body agreed that the committee on laws will be ready with a report within a month, they decided to extend the experiment until the end of July.
The Citom board passed en masse a resolution asking the City Council to approve the extension.
This way, the City Council will also have the “opportunity to study and decide whether to pass said pertinent ordinance,” the traffic board said.
(June 26, 2003 issue)
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