Warrior Pilgrimage

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on February 22, 2010

HAVE YOU NOTICED Cebu City's map or have tried walking upon its city streets or, better still, have ridden around the suburbs of this Queen City of the South? Chances are you would see street names where you would least expected it or getting curious as to how city planners of the past label such streets in a roughshod manner? Sometimes, if not, most of the time, you'll get confused.

Take for example V. Gullas Street. It starts from M.J. Cuenco Avenue infront of the Cebu State College of Science and Technology and ends at Legaspi Street near Ultra Vistarama Theater where, on the same straight route where Mabolo public utility jitneys ply, Manalili Street takes the rest of the length up to Calderon Street in Carbon Market. This is a contiguous road yet two street names are sharing it. Likewise the wide P. del Rosario Street and Imus Street, with the former cut dead at D. Jakosalem Street to give space to the shorter Imus. And why honor Imus? What part of the city's history did that name is being given importance of?

Legaspi Street, on the other hand, which starts from M.J. Cuenco Avenue near Plaza Independencia is abruptly stopped at Colon Street in Oriente Theater where, Pelaez Street takes up the rest of the conterminous downtown by-way starting from Cinema Theater. If you look at the city map only Legaspi is fixed like this whereas parallel streets crossing Colon are exempt like D. Jakosalem, Osmeña Boulevard, Leon Kilat Street, Panganiban Street, Climaco Street and Mabini Street.

In that same stretch and principle, the former city administrators liked to add the word “Extension” to the same immediate expanse of these city streets...READ MORE (Press CTRL + mouse click)