MERGED: Mambaling Flyover

[dubioz]

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The better term is OVERPASS, which is a type of bridge, but over another road. LOL

Bitaw, if I have one comment, the overpasses in Cebu are temporary measures kay mga 2 laner ra. Himo jud basta lang na'ay overpass....

battle of the brain? bridge vs. flyover

[samamar21]

when kaha mahuman this flyoever??

[markyroxy]

when kaha mahuman this flyoever??

sa ako nadunggan na mga haka². hehe mga around late march or early april daw mahuman ang flyover..

[cebuiluv]

5 months more on flyover work

By Jujemay G. Awit
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

MOTORISTS will have to wait another five to six months to use the Mambaling flyover, on which they’ve pinned their hopes for smoother traffic in the area.

This information surprised the Cebu City Traffic Operations and Management (Citom).

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Citom Chairman Sylvan Jakosalem told Sun.Star Cebu he received the information from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) 7 officials themselves.



“They said there is a problem with the construction of phase two; they still have to conduct a bidding,” said Jakosalem.

Jakosalem admitted Citom was aware only of phase one until last month, when the Citom board was finally apprised of a phase two in the construction of the Mambaling flyover.

Phase two will include the construction of a skywalk so that pedestrians won’t have to cross near the approaches of the flyover, which may cause accidents.

It also involves widening the side roads and building a center island.

“There are structures to be modified and the widening of the road,” Jakosalem said.

But it was only yesterday, when Jakosalem accidentally met with DPWH 7 Director Pedro Herrera Jr. and Cebu City Director Nicomedes Leonor, that he learned the Mambaling flyover cannot be used by motorists until phase two is completed.

The Citom board has requested WTG Construction, the contractor of the project, and DPWH to appear before the board this Wednesday to make clarifications.

Jakosalem said he was told that the Mambaling flyover will pose a danger to motorists if it is opened to traffic before the skywalk, center island and side roads are finished.

Phase two will take four months.

But since it has to undergo bidding, Jakosalem estimated another month or two in addition to the actual construction.

According to the DPWH 7, the national agency made changes in infrastructure project procedures, which is why a bidding has to be held for the second phase.

Citom would have wanted to open the flyover for public use before classes start in June.

With this development, though, there is nothing Citom can do.

WTG has already said the flyover is “passable” but Jakosalem said DPWH thinks it would be dangerous.

In May 2010, DPWH 7 said the project would cause “minimum inconvenience” to motorists because work will be done at night.

That time, DPWH 7 also expected the construction of the flyover will be finished on time on Feb. 18, because there were no apparent causes of delays unlike the Banilad flyover, which was met with resistance.

Last January, Citom received a report from DPWH 7 that it cannot finish the flyover on time because of persistent rains that month, which stalled work.

An extension was supposed to last until the end of February but in a March interview, Citom executive director Rafael Yap said the contractor could not meet the deadline again because of the February delays.

This is the fourth time the opening of the flyover was moved; it is also the longest without a specific time frame.

Mambaling flyover stretches 410 meters between the Cebu Institute of Technology University and Mambaling Elementary School.

It is worth P110.98 million and funded by the Priority Development Assistance Fund of former congressman Antonio Cuenco.

Motorists have been complaining of heavy traffic in the area because vehicles on three lanes have to share only one lane approaching the flyover.

Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on April 12, 2011.

Paita ane uyy!!! Government projects at its finest!

[peewee_toot]

^^dugaya pa gd. bati-a...

[darkdevil]

May pa manuhol sa mga tambay na ipanglabay ng naka ali sa fly over, then adto na tanan mo agi ^_^

[rockford_fosgate09]

ahayyy , mura raman ni gi landscape wa paman gi open wen kaha ni?

[taga_ipil]

"This information surprised the Cebu City Traffic Operations and Management (Citom).

Citom Chairman Sylvan Jakosalem told Sun.Star Cebu he received the information from the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) 7 officials themselves.

“They said there is a problem with the construction of phase two; they still have to conduct a bidding,” said Jakosalem.

Jakosalem admitted Citom was aware only of phase one until last month, when the Citom board was finally apprised of a phase two in the construction of the Mambaling flyover."

Even Jako is unaware of Phase II ... g-unsa man diay ni pagplano?
nganong wala naman lang na g-usa sa proposal stage?

I smell something fishy on this second bidding!
mura man ni ug gtuyo.. para ma-force nila ang second bidding which again another KICKBACK!

EPIC FAIL!

[peewee_toot]

asa ang phase 1 and ang phase 2? wa ko ka gets...

[Kirketchel]

pangwarta napud!