3rd bridge between Mactan, Cebu expected to help ease traffic jam

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plan it real good............> at least 4 lanes each way .......... more the better

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Gi approvan na bani? Never heard of this proposal until I saw this thread.

[krishnu shivaq silquin]

Help ease cguro... Pero that 3rd bridge will only ease those bound for lapulapu and cebu... Pero kani sa mango..sa p.del Rosario.. Diha sa banilad.. Lahug... Ug kadtong interior cebu city... I doubt kung naa ba... Unless Ibalhin tanan public ug private schools away sa city... Pero mao sad... Mo hinay sad ang cebu city... Or Ikatag ug maau ang schools... Most areas na grabeh ug traffic do.ol jud ug schools... Mango.. STC, USC , CIC.. . Pero naa Panay mga ginagmay na schools wala na mention ha... Tan.awa na balhin and sacred heart di ba namingaw na nga area... P.del Rosario ... USC,CNU,Abellana, cebu central... Mga eskina sad naay PCGS... Unahan zapatera... Lahug.. Though Dili kaau sa UP.. Pero didto sa unahan ug didto sa USP.. Then kanang sa banilad.. Hahay college pako traffic naman jud na.. Tungod ra jd tawn na sa mang left turn.. Gkan country mall to Talamban ... Gkan cebu to country mall.. Talamban to paradise.. Or kanang Talamban to btc... Basta left turn ra jud na...

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UPDATE:

The third bridge linking mainland Cebu to the island of Mactan will be up by 2018.

This was announced over the weekend by Cordova Mayor Adelino Sitoy who said that the ground-breaking for the joint venture between the municipality and the Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC) would probably be held in January.

MPTC – a subsidiary of the Manuel Pangilinan-led Metro Pacific Investments Corp. – will also need to sign a public-private partnership (PPP) agreement with the Cebu City government before actual construction could roll out. Construction of the bridge would take three years to complete.

The two local government units have placed the review process on fast-track so that the signing of the PPP agreement could take place at the start of 2015.

Aside from the bridge, Sitoy said MPTC has also proposed to construct a causeway near the Shell Island which would lead to barangay Pilipog in Cordova where the structure starts. The bridge will end at the mouth of the Guadalupe River near the Cebu South Coastal Road Tunnel.

The bridge is meant to absorb the expected increase in the volume of traffic as developments in Mactan Island which includes the new passenger terminal of the Mactan Cebu International Airport would be completed by 2018.
MPTC legal consultant Aristotle Batuhan welcomed the development.

“I just knew that Cebu City has already formed its Joint Venture Selection Committee. So at least they now have the mandate to review the proposal right away,” Batuhan told CDN.

Batuhan said they’re expecting an award from the LGUs by February or March next year, after which “construction will commence immediately.”

The Cebu City government is trying to catch up with Cordova in moving forward MPTC’s “unsolicited proposal”.
City Administrator Lucelle Mercado said it was only last week that Cebu City formed its Joint Venture Selection Committee (JVSC) to review the MPTC proposal. Mercado heads the panel.

In a joint meeting last Friday, the Cebu City and Cordova committees decided to pursue separate PPP agreements with MPTC.

“Right now, Cordova is a bit ahead of us. They have already reviewed the proposal but there are still some documents that the proponent hasn’t given yet. We will be doing coordination meetings with the Cordova side. We will catch up,” she said.

Mercado said that they want to finish the review of the MPTC proposal by November so they can present their findings and recommendations to Mayor Michael Rama.

“After we review, we will present it to the mayor who will then declare them (MPTC) as the original proponent. Then it will be studied further in more detail before it’s sent to the City Council for approval,” she said. The proponents were already able to present their proposal to the City Council last August.

Part of their proposal was for a P55 toll fee for cars, passenger jeepneys and sports utility vehicles (SUVs). The amount will be doubled for light trucks and buses and thrice for multi-axle or heavy trucks. The amount was based on a willingness to pay survey conducted by MPTC consultancy firm Parsons Brinckerhoff. But this still has to be approved by the Toll Regulatory Board.

The P16.5 billion project will be 705 meters long with a vertical clearance of 55 meters from the highest water level to ensure that post-panamax or bigger vessels can pass through. The MPTC pegged the share of revenues at 95-5 percent. The five percent will be equally divided between Cebu City and Cordova.

“We conducted a willingness to pay survey and we came up with an acceptable price of P55,” said Dante Bautista of Parsons Brinckerhoff, which does consulting work on the project. The proposed third bridge will be around twice the height of the two existing Cebu-Mactan bridges.

Bautista said this is to ensure that the bridge accommodates big vessels passing under the bridge to get to and from the Cebu International Port (CIP). It will have four lanes and will have a “generous sidewalk and for cycling.” There also won’t be a reclamation to be done for the project. The proponents have opted to just use causeways to connect the bridge to the land.

There will also be three viaducts in the causeway “to ensure flow of current” so that fishermen, especially in Cordova town, won’t be affected. Bautista said having a bridge as third access is much cheaper than a tunnel. He said construction of a tunnel is ten times costlier than a bridge, while its maintenance is twice as costly.

Source: Cebu Daily News

Dayon jud diay, start construction of the 3rd bridge will be on January 2015(?) and will be finished at 2018. Hopefully no more delays of the construction project like the BRT.

[salbahis]

ang grupo jud diay ni Pangilinan ang naka kuhao.... same group who built NLEX/SLEX... and sister company sa PLDT/SMART/SUN

[MeMing]

Kung akoy reporter ani, "The P16.5 billion project will allow vehicles to reach the island of Mactan from Cebu in record time only to be put to a standstill upon reaching the TRISIKAD invested Cordova."

Only in the Philippines moment napud ni! weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[salbahis]

Kung akoy reporter ani, "The P16.5 billion project will allow vehicles to reach the island of Mactan from Cebu in record time only to be put to a standstill upon reaching the TRISIKAD invested Cordova."

Only in the Philippines moment napud ni! weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

couple days ago ni adto ko cordova para adto ko mosakay para MIMG im surprise that ang karsada sa cordova nindto na... naa nay sidewalk unlike the last time i went there... (duol rako sa cordova but i rarely go there)... and off course kanang mga trisikad ila sad na hiposon... pareha ragud na sa mga motor pag abot sa multicab sa opon gihipos sila sa mga suok2 nalang ang biyahe nila... before sila ang mag dagan sa hiway...

since madayon na jud ni time to acquire some asset in cordova... mentras wala pa mo saka ug pag ayo ang presyo sa mga property didto...

[MeMing]

couple days ago ni adto ko cordova para adto ko mosakay para MIMG im surprise that ang karsada sa cordova nindto na... naa nay sidewalk unlike the last time i went there... (duol rako sa cordova but i rarely go there)... and off course kanang mga trisikad ila sad na hiposon... pareha ragud na sa mga motor pag abot sa multicab sa opon gihipos sila sa mga suok2 nalang ang biyahe nila... before sila ang mag dagan sa hiway...

since madayon na jud ni time to acquire some asset in cordova... mentras wala pa mo saka ug pag ayo ang presyo sa mga property didto...

wala na diay tricycle sa opon? kay sauna naa ko contact sa legal diha LLC dili man to mahilabtan ang mag tricycle kay lagi, daghan kaayo na silag votes mahatag.

kung wagtangon ang trisikad sa cordova, pulihan ra gihapon ug linibo nga tricycle. ung2 ra gihapon ang mga nagdali nibayad sa toll sa 3rd bridge para lang maungot sa linibong tricycle.

[salbahis]

wala na diay tricycle sa opon? kay sauna naa ko contact sa legal diha LLC dili man to mahilabtan ang mag tricycle kay lagi, daghan kaayo na silag votes mahatag.

kung wagtangon ang trisikad sa cordova, pulihan ra gihapon ug linibo nga tricycle. ung2 ra gihapon ang mga nagdali nibayad sa toll sa 3rd bridge para lang maungot sa linibong tricycle.

naa pa pero sa mga sook2 nalang dili pareha sauna nga sila ang mag dangan sa hiway karon dili na... bawal man sad gud na sa hiway code... gi allow lang na sa city hall

[edticzoniii05]

maau kung na ease ang taffic sa bridge