Several alternate and new roads will open next year to lessen traffic congestion in the city, City Councilor Conrado Baluran said.
The chair of the committee on energy and transportation chairperson said on Tuesday that there were at least two alternate routes that will be opened in the early months of 2017.
He said that he joined several city officials in a meeting with Land Transportation and Regulatory Board chairperson Martin Delgra to help map out additional routes in the metropolis with a view to lessening traffic congestion.
Baluran said that the Public Utility Vehicles will have new routes as soon as the road constructions for the new paths will open.
“Our number one target is to really open the new modification approach, we really need to change the route since Matina Crossing is where the vehicles converge so we need to open more routes in the area,” he said.
Matina crossing is one of the most congested areas of the southern portion of the city.
He said that they an alternate route is soon to open in the Ulas area to prevent cars from passing the Matina intersection and decongest the traffic.
Meanwhile, two alternate routes in the northern and southern portion of the city will open in the early months of 2017.
“There are two shortcut roads that are about to afford next year one is in the Lanang area at the northern part of the city and in Catalunan Pequeño in the Southern part of the city,” Baluran said.
Through this, the city council is expecting to lessen the traffic woes in the metropolis.
A multi billion coastal road is also part of the project of the city and the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to open new roads in the city.
The said project will cost around P34 billion that will cover the northern part of the city to southernmost area.
The said project is under the P41 billion worth of road construction allocated by the DPWH.
