MERGED: Metro Cebu Masterplan and Development / Cebu's Future

[brutuz]

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Cebu grows faster this year ... I CAN SEE IT...

[brandnewbien]

i dont expect much from cebu, i just want it to improve from time to time

[tessF]

yes... very productive ang cebu this year. maau ta mag cge ni sya. daghan investor para daghan job openings

[BiKho]

if this means na Cebu will be like Manila na in the long run, di ko ganahan ana mas better if we'll be like this lang...moderate ra ang cost of living and so as the pollution

[oyong16]

mayta lageh masugdan asap! ^_^

[Slerz]

i enjoyed reading your post bai!
maka.excite ang plans.. all we have to do now is to wait for the plans to be completed while at the same time, live our own lives. .

road widening please! dili solusyon ang flyovers para ma ease ang traffic. malooy tawn mo, don't make cebu a mirror image of manila na ni give way to increase traffic and vehicle volumes. regulate vehicle purchase and make concrete implementations of law and city ordinances of ridding the city with old vehicles

mayta lageh masugdan asap! ^_^

ROAD WIDENING: Escario Street (almost finish), road from Mabolo Church upto eskina Gen Maxilom widening (soon), Mambaling flyover side street Widening (on going), access road from Poblacion Pardo hi-way or from Pardo Public Market to SRP (soon).

BRT:

By Mr. zidlakan of SSC Cebu
sorry for the delay. i did say i'd post something last wednesday. but after
waiting for months for this thing to happen, writing about it when it did seem
so anticlimactic. besides, it was samuel's birthday last wednesday ...

last monday, i was given a copy of the official letter of DOTC to the World
Bank requesting for the Technical Assistance grant of US$1 Million for the
full-blown Feasibility Study and initial conceptual design of the cebu BRT to
be funded from the Clean Technology Fund (CTF). the letter was actually
dated april 11 but was signed by USEC aristotle batuhan (as acting secretary)
only lasy monday (april 18 ). this was the long-awaited letter which would
have triggered the start of the study, originally scheduled late 2010 and then
rescheduled 1st quarter of 2011. its april already, but i am just as happy
just th same - at least the letter was signed. now we can rest safe assured
the project is a GO, both sides are already seriously committed to this ...
i mean you don't go around giving grants of US$1 Million just for kicks!
and the government do not ask for such especially because that's already
part of the US$50 Million CTF counterpart which will require the same
amount from the Philippine Government.

took 3 years to get this project finally committed. it first started off with
an april 2008 request from former mayor tomas osmena to the public-private
infrastructure assistance facility (PPIAF) for a grant to do the pre-FS for
the project. the request was evaluated and after 5 months, we got an
initial info that the PPIAF would be favorable to it. january of 2009 we got
the confirmation of the grant with the World Bank going to do the task and
to procure the consultants. after tendering, the WB consultants - integrated
transport planners (ITP) did the pre-FS october to march of 2010, with the
final report submitted to the WB and the city council april. by may, DOTC
has already written World Bank for the FS grant. then elections came.

by the time the new administration set in, world bank was already ready to
proceed with the project. it just needed a written indication from the phil.
government that indeed this is what we want and that we are going to
proceed with this. thus, the late 2010, and early 1st Q 2011 schedules.
DOTC was just too busy with the problems in manila - MRT/LRT fare hikes,
expressway toll rate hikes, fuel price increases, etc. etc, that this letter
took the backburner. but at long last, we got it. now we can roll up our
sleeves and start the hard work. it will take years, the 2013 roll-out date
will have to be moved to 2014, but i think this is okay. BRT's takes some
time to be studied but needs just 18 months for construction, unlike the
LRT which requires 4 years, and even longer time to gestate (MRT-7 in
manila was submitted in 2002 yet and until now, 2011, has not even bro-
ken ground). the World Bank and DOTC will be tendering out the consultants
the rest of the year, let's hope they can engage them before year-end
and really start the work.

have a happy easter, everyone ...


REVITALIZATIO: Plaza Independencia - (ongoing), Carbon Market - (ongoing but will be revatalized after Plaza Independencia), Plaza Maritima revitalization (soon)


ECONOMY: this year 2011, there are more or less 20 high rises will be constructed.


MALLS:

NEW MALLS (soon)

SM Seaside (new mall - 2013)
SM Consolacion (new mall - 2012)
Il Corso (new mall - 2013)
J-mall (new mall - 2011)
Robinsons maxilom (new mall - 2012)
Gaisano Grand Talamban (new mall - 2011)
Gaisano Grand Mandaue (new mall - 2011)
Gaisano Mall Guadalupe (new mall - 2012)
SM Mactan (waiting)

EXPANSIONS

Ayala center Cebu Phase 2 (expansion - 2013)
Pacific Mall (expansion - 2011)
Gaisano Island Mall (expansion - 2012)

HYPERMARKETS

SM Hypermarket (new - 2011)
Shopwise Store by Rustans @ former Rubberworld in Mambaling(new - 2011)



and more developments, I will post soon...

Cebu is becoming a World Class City and growing in leaps. I can see and feel coz I'm monitoring Cebus Developments everyday...
Reading your posts here, seems that many are not updated with Cebu's current huge developments such as BRT... SRP ... and more...

[Slerz]

Sometimes before ta mo buhi og storya nga way nahitabo nga development sa Cebu karon kay lagi mao gihapon, prove it first, research first di kay puro lang ta words.

Like sige tag pangayo og road widening please pero wa kahibaw nga nag ongoing na ang mga road widenings. Nagpakita lang na nga wa tay pagpakabana sa atong pang gobyerno kay wa tay susi susi kung unsa nay nahitabo sa atong syudad.

Diha na ta mo reklamo kung sa atong pag SUSI kay wa tay nakita, dili kay wapa gani ta ka SUSI, daghan na tag yaw yaw.

[rowell83]

i heard the planned LRT project in cebu was scrapped? saonz...i have a friend who was part of the group that conducted the feasibility study of the LRT project here in cebu, and what he told me was really disappointing kay BRT daw ang ipuli. For me Buses can't solve the traffic congestion if you look at Manila now. For me, ang pinakanindot gyud na alternative is the LRT. Flyovers and road widenings are also great idea.

[rowell83]

i agree. the best possible thing to do NOW and i mean NOW dyud is to make the plan, para by next year or late this year naa nai BLUE PRINT or tamdananan. kai ug dugay dugayon pa ni kai kabalo sila na it will take forever to accomplish the task wa dyapuy ayo. kai by patch lang ni inig implement. dapat unta karon pa lang na di pa kaayo problema and wai traffic like in manila naa nai plano. para kwarta nalang ug legal ang problemahon.

tama jud ni brod..kay sa una taas kaayo ang hope na matukuran ug LRT ang cebu..karon kay giscrapped na pud. sige lang ug gasto ug feasibility study unya dili lahoson ang plano, may ra ba ug gamay ug budget para mag feasibility study...korek kaayo ka brod!!

[Slerz]

^^wait until BRT will be realized. If mag tukod og LRT, magamit na nato mga 2025 pa. But BRT, nag sugod og study last 2009 pero it will be running this 2014. BRT costs only P6B with more than 50kilometer route while LRT's P30B will only have 6kilometer route.

Nganong naka ingon man ka nga di maka solve ang traffic og gi kuhaan nimog base ang Manila... Manila as of now don't even have BRT yet. So why did you take Manila as an example?

And yeah!, Buses can't solve ptraffic problems but BRT can