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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Two lanes on flyover stretch closed starting Wednesday
CEBU CITY -- Heavier-than-usual traffic is expected starting late Wednesday and for the next six months, with the closure of two inner lanes of the four-lane Gov. Mariano Cuenco Ave. in Banilad for the construction of the P89.6-million flyover.
The public is advised to "avoid the area as much as possible" and bear with the inconvenience.
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The 390-meter flyover will span the road from the Mahiga Bridge area and beyond the A.S. Fortuna St. junction.
In an advisory, City Councilor Sylvan Jakosalem Tuesday announced that WTG Construction and Development Corp. said heavy traffic is expected in the area.
"WTG will be closing the two inner lanes along Gov. Cuenco Ave. in front of the TPE building starting tomorrow (today) at 10 p.m. until the flyover is finished," he said.
Cebu City Traffic Operations Management (Citom) Executive Officer Arnel Tancinco said WTG's crane will occupy the middle of the road for pile-driving works for the flyover's two piers and will need at least a 100- to 150-meter stretch of road.
After pile driving, WTG will begin casting the piers.
Tancinco said what will be left is a two-meter wide lane for each direction, which is barely enough passage for a car.
"My advice is (for motorists) to avoid the area. The two lanes will be closed. Before, the road was never closed. We couldn't do that anymore because there are heavy equipment and a fence," he said.
Rerouting, however, will not be resorted to yet.
He also said there is still no need for the City to forcibly open the Cebu Memorial Park (Cempark) road as a parallel route for traffic going south.
"If we think there's already a need, we will ask for assistance from City Hall in opening of that road," he said.
Privacy
Mayor Tomas Osmeña earlier said he will invoke the general welfare clause of the Local Government Code to open the road.
The Cempark's board of directors, in a letter to the Citom received last February 7, refused to voluntarily open the road.
"We have sold our services and plots on the basis of exclusivity, serenity, solemnity, and privacy for the final resting place of Cebu's loved ones... Should we allow the access, we believe we will be open to being sued by our numerous and powerful clients and our park will close its value completely," it said, among other reasons.
But while he considered the board's reasons valid, Osmeña said he can "exercise his right of imminent domain for the general good at the expense of a minority's interests."
"So if the hardships of the people become intolerable, create public disorder, dislocate the economy, and bar people from going to work, which is not only disruptive but also destructive, I can impose a harsher law and expropriate the property," he said in an earlier interview.
He said he will appeal for the board to reconsider its decision. (RHM of Sun.Star Cebu)
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