Comments on: Another flyover to be built in Iloilo City http://www.migedc.org.ph/main/guimaras-iloilo-news-updates/another-flyover-to-be-built-in-iloilo-city.html MIGEDC Updates! Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:53:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: gilvergarajapitana http://www.migedc.org.ph/main/guimaras-iloilo-news-updates/another-flyover-to-be-built-in-iloilo-city.html/comment-page-1#comment-111 gilvergarajapitana Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:49:14 +0000 http://www.migedc.org.ph/main/?p=250#comment-111 An underpass (pass-under as an opposite of fly-over)could have been another option para indi mag dulum ya langit.. Galing waay na ta mahimu kay ara na na. Ang mahimu ta na lang is tell the city traffic managers/enforcers to prohibit PUJs from passing down under the flyover when travelling along Gen. Luna st. They still intersect with vehicles travelling along Infante-diversion road, thus making the flyover inutile. PUJs dont like to use the Flyover because there are no passengers up there. They congest the frontage of UPV and Hotel del Rio for picking-up passengers. All vehicles passing Gen.Luna must pass above the flyover and LOAD AND UNLOAD 100meters away from the foot of the flyover. Ang idalum sang flyover shall be used only by vehicles traveling along infante-diversion road, and by all left-turners. UPV and HDR and their opposites shall be NO LOADING/UNLOADING AREA !! ok ?? Ang waay ka intiende alsa kamut kay typon ko liwat. joke!! An underpass (pass-under as an opposite of fly-over)could have been another option para indi mag dulum ya langit.. Galing waay na ta mahimu kay ara na na. Ang mahimu ta na lang is tell the city traffic managers/enforcers to prohibit PUJs from passing down under the flyover when travelling along Gen. Luna st. They still intersect with vehicles travelling along Infante-diversion road, thus making the flyover inutile. PUJs dont like to use the Flyover because there are no passengers up there. They congest the frontage of UPV and Hotel del Rio for picking-up passengers. All vehicles passing Gen.Luna must pass above the flyover and LOAD AND UNLOAD 100meters away from the foot of the flyover. Ang idalum sang flyover shall be used only by vehicles traveling along infante-diversion road, and by all left-turners. UPV and HDR and their opposites shall be NO LOADING/UNLOADING AREA !! ok ?? Ang waay ka intiende alsa kamut kay typon ko liwat. joke!!

]]> By: Robert http://www.migedc.org.ph/main/guimaras-iloilo-news-updates/another-flyover-to-be-built-in-iloilo-city.html/comment-page-1#comment-75 Robert Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:36:19 +0000 http://www.migedc.org.ph/main/?p=250#comment-75 I could not agree more with Bruce. Is this project really based on any credible study of traffic conditions, alternatives and environmental impacts? Some argument could be made for doing something at the Infante site, but traffic at the Jalandoni site is not really that bad. General Luna is (or was) one of Iloilo City's most graceful boulevards. Plunking another monstrosity in front of San Agustin will be an aesthetic disaster, and will, just as the Infante flyover has done, chop away sidewalks, trees and anything else that makes that part of the city attractive. Perhaps the citizens of Iloilo would benefit more from a public water supply which protects them from cholera and typhoid fever than a flyover to speed SUVs through the city. I could not agree more with Bruce. Is this project really based on any credible study of traffic conditions, alternatives and environmental impacts? Some argument could be made for doing something at the Infante site, but traffic at the Jalandoni site is not really that bad.

General Luna is (or was) one of Iloilo City’s most graceful boulevards. Plunking another monstrosity in front of San Agustin will be an aesthetic disaster, and will, just as the Infante flyover has done, chop away sidewalks, trees and anything else that makes that part of the city attractive.

Perhaps the citizens of Iloilo would benefit more from a public water supply which protects them from cholera and typhoid fever than a flyover to speed SUVs through the city.

]]> By: Bruce http://www.migedc.org.ph/main/guimaras-iloilo-news-updates/another-flyover-to-be-built-in-iloilo-city.html/comment-page-1#comment-62 Bruce Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:28:39 +0000 http://www.migedc.org.ph/main/?p=250#comment-62 Oh no, not another one! Flyovers are terrible urban design. The destroy great urban space, which is rooted in pedestrians. Cities grow and thrive when people walk the streets, not on cars. Great city spaces are wonderful walking spaces. Flyovers make streets dark and closed it. The prioritize the car over the walker, the wealthy over the poor. Worse then that though, they do little to help with traffic. Want to improve the traffic in Iloilo? Improve the design of the streets and intersections. Most importantly, install traffic lights, synchronized and timed to change with the traffic patterns throughout the day. Don't spend the money on more dumb, hard, dirty, dark concrete but on smart street design and intelligent traffic lights. Oh no, not another one! Flyovers are terrible urban design. The destroy great urban space, which is rooted in pedestrians. Cities grow and thrive when people walk the streets, not on cars. Great city spaces are wonderful walking spaces. Flyovers make streets dark and closed it. The prioritize the car over the walker, the wealthy over the poor.

Worse then that though, they do little to help with traffic. Want to improve the traffic in Iloilo? Improve the design of the streets and intersections. Most importantly, install traffic lights, synchronized and timed to change with the traffic patterns throughout the day.

Don’t spend the money on more dumb, hard, dirty, dark concrete but on smart street design and intelligent traffic lights.

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