MERGED: Metro Cebu Road Development: Flyovers or Road Widening?

[peewee_toot]

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^^ah. bitaw sir. hapsay ning ing ani nga style. dapat disiplina jd sa driver and pasahero ang kailangan...

[Hammer_and_Sickle]

kanus-a kaha ni mabasahan sa atong mga politiko, atong mga idea
hahahaizt

[Hammer_and_Sickle]

Here's a link to a write up about the former mayor of Bogota City, Colombia. It also includes how he transformed the city with 'green' innovations that employed the poor and helped the environment. Here's a summary of what he accomplished in his term:

As mayor, Peñalosa:
- Created a successful Urban Land Reform institution.
- Created a new bus-based transit system: TransMilenio.
- Spearheaded large improvements to the city center, including the rejuvenation of plazas, creation of a large park in an area previously overrun by crime and drugs, and transformation of one of the main deteriorating downtown avenues into a dynamic pedestrian pubic space.
- Built more than a hundred nurseries for children under 5 and assured resources for their operation.
- Increased children enrolment in public schools by more than 200,000, a 34% increase in four years; did major improvements to more than 150 school buildings and built 50 new schools.
- Put in place a network of 14,000 computers in all public schools connected to both the Internet and a network of 3 large new libraries and several smaller ones that were built.
- Planted more than 100,000 trees.
- Built or reconstructed hundreds of kilometers of sidewalks; more than 300 kilometers of bicycle paths, pedestrian streets, and greenways; and more than 1,200 parks.
- Instituted the city’s first “Car-Free Day” in 2000, for which he received the Stockholm Challenge Award. Through a referendum, people adopted a yearly car free day and decided that from the year 2015 onwards, there would be no cars during rush hours, from 6 AM to 9 AM and from 4:30 PM to 7:30 PM.


Read more: Colombia Dispatch 11: Former Bogota mayor Enrique Peñalosa | Travel | Smithsonian Magazine

Enrique Peñalosa Project for Public Spaces - Placemaking for Communities

pwde e-pirate ilang mayor?ato himo-on mayor sa cebu city for a 3 terms, mandaue city for 3 terms, and lapu2x for 3 terms?

[renlan]

just recently i attended a conference for architects... special guest namo c mayor rama. one of the famous architects of cebu did share to him the idea of pedestrialization in cebu. but i am not aware of how the mayor reacted to that though. there was also a signature campaign held there to support this. i think we have enough signatures already for the campaign. isubmit na lang nya to, together with the proposal. it was in that conference where i learned about the story about the mayor of Bogota City... truly inspiring...

[dexlimp]

railways jud tingali..

[peewee_toot]

just recently i attended a conference for architects... special guest namo c mayor rama. one of the famous architects of cebu did share to him the idea of pedestrialization in cebu. but i am not aware of how the mayor reacted to that though. there was also a signature campaign held there to support this. i think we have enough signatures already for the campaign. isubmit na lang nya to, together with the proposal. it was in that conference where i learned about the story about the mayor of Bogota City... truly inspiring...

sir, unsay pasabot anang pedestrialization? pwede paki explain? thanks...

[Hammer_and_Sickle]

just recently i attended a conference for architects... special guest namo c mayor rama. one of the famous architects of cebu did share to him the idea of pedestrialization in cebu. but i am not aware of how the mayor reacted to that though. there was also a signature campaign held there to support this. i think we have enough signatures already for the campaign. isubmit na lang nya to, together with the proposal. it was in that conference where i learned about the story about the mayor of Bogota City... truly inspiring...

maynta matagad bai, mas mo nindot gyud lge ang cebu city

[renlan]

sir, unsay pasabot anang pedestrialization? pwede paki explain? thanks...

sorry, pedestrianization diay... wrong eyspelling ko...

[brutuz]

wider roads...superhighway...at least 10 lanes...north to south...and vv...

[Visual C#]

Here are some ideas OTOH:

- Clear the gorram sidewalks of merchandise, people, residences, etc. They're there to serve one purpose: as sidewalks! I've seen wide roads narrow because of unrestricted sidewalk "abuse".

- Let's get some decent bikelanes going. Encourage people to stop taking these trisikads, and drive their own bikes instead.

- Cut new public utility vehicle (jeeps, tricycles, minibuses) registrations by HALF. Seriously. LTO just likes to issue these licenses like there was no tomorrow. Then..

- Invest in a mass rapid transit system, like the proposed BRT or even better, the LRT/MRT.