MANDAUE City Mayor Gabriel Luis Quisumbing wants the construction of the Mandaue-Consolacion-Liloan bypass road project to be prioritized.
Quisumbing said the traffic congestion in the city will worsen if the new port in Consolacion will be built before the road project.
“You know, we’ve been talking for the last few months about moving the port to Consolacion but if this road is not completed before this, we are dead. Mandaue is heavily congested now. Can you imagine what will happen when the new port opens and we have hundreds, if not thousands, of container trucks passing through the city roads?” he said.
The conduct of a feasibility study for the proposed bypass road project, also known as the Cebu North Coastal Road Project, was approved by the RDC 7 last Friday.
The study will determine the final project cost and actual length of the new road project, among others.
Quisumbing, who has been pushing for the bypass road for the last two years, was glad that the project has finally taken off.
“And I hope that at the soonest possible time, this can be undertaken because we have to be able to address our infrastructure gap,” he said.
Part of the City Government’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan, the mayor said, is the construction of an outer circumferential road, which will allow uninterrupted access from the Cebu Port Authority, F.E. Zuellig Ave. to the northern Cebu.
Glenn Soco, who is head of the RDC’s Infrastructure Development Committee, also hopes that the bypass road project will be implemented soon, saying it will be a landmark project for Metro Cebu.
The bypass road project will serve as an alternative road to the heavily congested Tayud, Consolacion-Liloan road.