CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – Prominent entrepreneur Rene Romero has called on the city government and the Department of Public Works and Highways to find ways and means to improve the traffic management system here amid the traffic logjams besetting the city streets.
Romero urged the city government and the DPWH to put up a “traffic separator and road barrier” which he said will ease traffic in the Dolores area which is now being hounded with heavy traffic because of the ongoing rehabilitation of the flyover at the junction of the Jose Abad Santos Avenue and Lazatin Blvd.
Romero, a pillar of the Pampanga Chamber of Business and Industry, said the improvement of the traffic management system in the Dolores central business district will support President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s infrastructure modernization under the “Build Better More” program.
This, as the DPWH beefs up traffic decongestion projects all over Central Luzon in a bid to improve traffic flow.
The City of San Fernando is one of the growth centers of Central Luzon where most regional government agencies are also located.
The DPWH is tasked to implement road projects for the improvement of inter-city or municipality and provincial connectivity and regional linkages as part of the Build Better More infrastructure modernization program.
Romero also called for the lighting of major intersections in St. Jude, and Barangays San Agustin, Quebiawan, Del Rosario, Sindalan, and Telabastagan to prevent vehicular accidents.
It was also Romero that made representation for the dismantling of an illegal traffic signal light at the Vista Mall along MacArthur Highway that caused monumental traffic in the area for quite some time.
Through the direct intervention of Mayor Vilma Caluag, the traffic light had been dismantled.
As this developed, DPWH-3 assistant director Denise Maria Ayag said the agency’s traffic decongestion projects “will serve as ways to strengthen our country’s economy because these will create an efficient movement of the people and our products, including the agricultural ones.”
Ayag said the construction of bypass or diversion roads and flyovers in the region will enhance and facilitate the flow of traffic which is good for business.
“These will help in providing alternative routes for our motorists which will decongest the primary roads like the Daang Maharlika and Jose Abad Santos Avenue. Travel time will also be lessened if these bypass roads that are under construction right now will be opened, particularly in the provinces of Bulacan and Pampanga,” notedo Ayag.
Projects under the agency’s Traffic Decongestion Program include rehabilitation of Daang Maharlika, Manila North Road, and Jose Abad Santos Avenue. Also included is the construction of Ala-Uli Flyover in Bataan, Sto. Cristo and Cutcut Flyovers in Angeles City, Capas-Botolan Road in Tarlac and Zambales, Lubao-Guagua-Minalin-Sto Tomas Bypass Road in Pampanga, San Ildefonso-San Rafael-San Miguel Bypass Road in Bulacan, Palihan-Mabiga-Morong-SBMA Access Road in Bataan; and Subic Bypass/Diversion Roads in Zambales.
The DPWH infrastructure program also includes construction of bike lanes and pedestrian infrastructures for the safety of bikers and residents. Punto News Team/PR
