THE Traffic Enforcement Agency of Mandaue (Team) is asking for additional traffic engineering devices that will help motorists avoid accidents.
The City’s Command Center has monitored several successive vehicular accidents, prompting Team to seek Mayor Jonas Cortes’ assistance.
Last Wednesday night, July 10, 2019, several motorcycles were involved in crashes on Lopez Jaena St. in Barangay Subangdaku and on A.C. Cortes Ave.
Team wants the City to look into the lack of traffic signs, non-working traffic lights and pedestrian lanes that have been haphazardly placed, since motorists have to deal with these on a daily basis.
The City owns 21 traffic lights, but Team is dismayed that one of these may be the root of heavy traffic since it is not working.
Honeymoon period
According to Florentino Nimor Jr., Team head, traffic lights are in place to ensure motorists and the public observe the laws and traffic directions in the city.
“What is needed is sound traffic engineering. There aren’t enough traffic signs in the city. That’s why pedestrians cross the street at any time. There are pedestrian crossing signs, but these are hard to notice. And there are no signs that forbid pedestrian crossings,” Nimor said in Cebuano.
The traffic office has been studying when and what time traffic is heaviest. It has learned that roads start getting congested from 8 to 9 a.m. every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Nimor said they’ve withheld arresting violators and imposing penalties while they’re trying to come up with ways to make the public observe traffic rules.
“That’s why no arrests have been made. It’s still the ‘honeymoon’ period of the new administration. We just want to educate the public about the rules. After all that, then we start apprehending,” Nimor said in Cebuano.
He hopes that with everybody following traffic rules, the city’s traffic will run smoothly. (From ANV of SuperBalita Cebu, PJB)