On-road parking congest Iloilo City’s roads

SOLVING TRAFFIC

Technical Working Group members of MIGEDC-JICA under Jose A. Tengco, City Hall employee assigned at the Iloilo City Planning Office (center, seated 4th from L-R), gathered during a meeting at Breakthrough Restaurant in Villa. The TWG members are being trained to be of technical assistance to their respective LGUs on matters involving local transportation and traffic management.

PARKING on and off the road have imposed a big problem in traffic management in Iloilo City.

This was emphasized by Professor Lorena Padojinog, consultant of the MIGEDC-JICA TWG or Metro Iloilo Guimaras Economic Development Council-Japan International Cooperation Agency, Transportation and Traffic Management Sector.

Padojinog explained that on-road parking is when vehicles park on the part or on the shoulder of the road; while off-road parking is done on a position or space not part of the road.
She noted that what presently happens on several streets in the City proper is that parking is done “on-road”, limiting the capacity of the road, and adding to the congestion of the road lanes resulting to traffic jams.

In response to this problem, the MIGEDC-JICA Project Team has identified Quezon Street as a subject of study, Padojinog said, stressing that the traffic experiment consists of initial surveys on off-road parking capacity and on-road parking demand. These surveys will give data on the volume of parking vehicles and the parking spaces available in this area. Read more…