Mayor wants all road projects done before 2015 Sinulog

CEBU, Philippines - Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama wants all ongoing road development projects to be finished or that the streets are already passable and traffic is unhampered before the Sinulog this coming January 2015.

He particularly cited the ongoing rehabilitation of roads at the North Reclamation Area, on V. Rama Avenue, and S. Osmeña Boulevard.

“I want all roads, especially the main roads, to be asphalted, and informal settlers should be out from the area,” Rama said.

At least P25 million worth of road concreting, drainage improvement, and sidewalk restoration projects are being implemented by Robinsons Land Corp. at the NRA under a private-public driven governance agreement implemented at no cost to the city government.

“The project is Robinsons’ Christmas gift to the city government,” Rama said, adding that the project is part of Robinsons’ corporate social responsibility activities.

Robinson’s Land Corp. construction manager Jaypee Allego said the NRA project is already 50 percent complete.

Allego said the 400-meter road concreting project started last November 14 and that they were aiming to finish before the launching of next year’s Sinulog.

Rama is yet to get reports from the implementing agencies of other road development projects done in the city.

Meanwhile, Rama revealed that aside from that with Robinsons, the city has other PPDG projects being implemented, adding that he had resorted to entering into such agreements because the City Council tied his hands.

Other PPDG projects were life-sized bronze statue of former senator Serging Osmeña Jr. and that of Don Vicente Rama infront of the Cebu City Hall legislative building, and the P5-million Magellan’s Park project, among others. — (FREEMAN)