P39M set aside for traffic lights

CEBU, Philippines - The Mandaue City government has allocated P39 million for the installation of additional traffic light system at several road intersections in the city.

Krister Cosedo, head of City Management Information Service Office, said the city targets to finish the installation of this project by November this year in preparation for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit meetings in December.

Cosedo said 12 intersections will be involved in the project, six of which will be installed with traffic lights while the other six will be installed with closed-circuit television cameras.

Once the project will be completed, all 21 intersections in the city will have had their own traffic light systems.

"Well-covered pud nato diri ang tanang entry ug exit points of Mandaue City," Cosedo said.

He added that that the CCTV cameras they will be installing for the second phase will be of fabric optics.

Cosedo said that the among the areas where the city plans to install the new traffic light systems are under the Subangdaku flyover, Maguikay flyover and the United Nations-Plaridel Street leading to the Marcelo Fernan Bridge.

Traffic light will also be installed at a highway in Barangay Canduman, according to Cosedo.

"The entry point in Canduman side, mao na ang first point of defense nato sa traffic so that we can control the traffic going to Mandaue," he said.

Before the project can materialize, however, it will still undergo the bidding process, Cosedo stressed.

He is hopeful that just like the first phase, the installation of additional traffic lights system in the city will be finished within six months.

"We do it phase by phase because of the budgeting constraints," Cosedo said. (FREEMAN)