Road closed, grrrr.

Long weekends are supposed to be fun, but it did not seem to start right for one of our readers last Saturday as he complained about the closure of a portion of the Cebu South Coastal Road in Talisay City.

The reader said that the portion closed was somewhere between Carmen and Laray and there was a long line of north-bound vehicles.

The reason for the closure was the fiesta celebration of the place.

The closure of roads is not exactly something new, but it always irritates motorists and commuters because the people organizing the events don’t think about the others using the road when they plan out their activities.

How many times has your travel been delayed by several minutes of hours due to the traffic jam caused by a fiesta celebration? How many times have you been in a near accident because of the people attending the dances and the nightly entertainment spread out to the streets thinking that they are untouchables?

This reminds us also of the loud disco music coming from Kalubihan in Minglanilla last Saturday that kept a big portion of the town’s population awake all night. The music did not stop until about 5 a.m. the next day.

Adding to the headaches of the townsfolk was the fact that at times there were people, who sounded drunk that tried to say something using the public address system.

For a town that has so many subdivisions, Minglanilla ought to strictly enforce the ordinance regulating these public dances. 

Aside from the sudden road closures during fiesta celebrations, many readers continue to complain about these tents with the names of politicians that suddenly sprout on the roads.

We expect more of them with the elections coming and many readers are now asking who do they turn to?

The best way to address this is not to vote for these people, whose names are on the tents, because they are insensitive to the needs of the people.

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In reaction to what we wrote last week on a need for a Metro Cebu-wide traffic authority, one reader said, “this should have already been in place, but politics is more important than traffic.”

“I remember Congressman del Mar sponsoring a bill for the creation of the Metro Cebu Traffic Authority, I wonder what happened to that,” he added.

It is really disappointing to see the lack of coordination and consistency with regards to the implementation of traffic laws in the various cities and municipalities of Metro Cebu.

We hope that after the 2010 elections, the local government leaders would revive the plan for the greater good of Cebu and its people.

Meanwhile, we hope that the local traffic authorities would find ways to make sure that drivers would toe the line. Towing illegally parked vehicles is just of the methods, but what is more important is that there are traffic law enforcers, who are not afraid to implement the laws.

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