ILOILO City – The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) deferred action on the proposed resolution filed by Vice Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog establishing a bicycle lane on the Iloilo Boulevard, the road being constructed connecting the Carpenters Bridge in Molo district and Forbes Bridge in La Paz district.

Councilor Eduardo Peñaredondo said the proposal is premature because the Iloilo Boulevard is not yet finished.

Mabilog asked Mayor Jerry Treñas to have the new road utilized as a bicycle lane to decongest traffic on the main road from Molo to the City Proper. Read more »

ILOILO CITY – The city council has deferred any action on a proposed resolution filed by vice mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog to utilize the whole of the unnamed road being constructed connecting the Carpenters Bridge in Molo-Mandurriao districts and Forbes Bridge in La Paz district in this city into a bicycle road.

In a regular session last February 4, Mabilog said it was the request of city mayor Jerry P. Treñas to have the new road utilized as a bicycle lane so as to decongest traffic at the main road connecting Molo and Mandurriao to the city proper. Read more »

All taxicabs here are expected to start issuing receipts by October, a move that assures passenger safety and more taxes to the government.

Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB-6) Regional Director Porfirio Clavel said the receipts should include the name of the taxi, the fare, the date, contact number of the taxi and tax identification number.

Clavel discussed with the officers and members of the Association of Taxi Operators in Panay this new scheme on Monday.

Some taxi operators expressed reservations. No commercial establishment sells receipt-issuing taxi meters here. Read more »

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. Read more »

ILOILO CITY – Iloilo City is again a recipient of a flyover project under the “MEGA Bridges for Urban and Rural Development Project” that will be funded by the French Government.

The flyover, which is proposed to be constructed at the junction of General Luna-Jalandoni streets, will be implemented under the President’s Bridge Program of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).

Emil K. Sadain, executive director of the President’s Bridge Program in a letter to Mayor Jerry P. Treñas has requested the assistance of latter’s office for the conduct of soil/geotechnical investigation as part of the design of the substructure.

The Woodfields Consultants Inc has been tapped as project consultant of the project.

Meanwhile, Treñas, in consultation with Sangguniang Panlungsod’s chairman on traffic committee councilor Erwin Plagata, disclosed that they will also look into other areas where traffic congestion is experienced and compared them with the proposed location.

One area is the junction of the national road in Taft North and Diversion Road in Mandurriao.

“This will be the second flyover for Iloilo City,” he said.

Treñas said there was no mention as to the budget allotted for the project.

The first flyover was constructed at the junction of General Luna and Infante streets, which is worth about P400 million.

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Public Safety and Security

• Information Dissemination

A.I Fire Prevention Month Celebration
A.2 National Disaster Consciousness Month Celebration
A.3 Crime Prevention Week Celebration (preparation of flyers, posters, etc.)

• Improve Technical Capabilities

B. Services improvement
B.1 Radio communications training attended by committee member agency
B.2 Conduct seminar on Writ of Amparo

• Improve community participation

C.1 Best practices/models in Public Safety and Security (Search for the Best of the year

• Improve Coordination and Networking

D. Coordination and Administration
D.1 Quarterly meetings

Environmental Management Committee

• Creation of LGU’s Environment and Natural Resources Office (MENRO)

Meetings
Trainings/capacity-building for MENRO-designates
Establishment of MENRO as permanent positions Read more »

Urban Partnerships Program-Philippines (UPP-Philippines) Leadership Series.

Download UPPP’s Leadership Series, a learning tool for policy makers to promote understanding of pressing urban issues and encourage policy actions for urban sustainability.

Leadership Series No. 10: Bioregional planning
Leadership Series No. 9: Furnishing the Streets
Leadership Series No. 8: When Public Becomes Private
Leadership Series No. 7: Spokes in the City
Leadership Series No. 6: Urban Waterfronts: The Wave of the Future
Leadership Series No. 5: Breaking Free From the Concrete Prison
Leadership Series No. 4: Walking into a Greener Future
Leadership Series No. 3: The Gospel of Bioregionalism
Leadership Series No. 2: The Evolution of the Jeepney and Transit in Metro Iloilo
Leadership Series No. 1: The New Public Realm and the Sustainable City

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Presentation by Dr. Gary Davidson and Beate Bowron (Canadian Urban Institute) consultants.

CUI Urban and Regional Planning Program
Iloilo, September 7 – 16, 2008

Beate Bowron, FCIP, RPP, former Director of
Community Planning, City of Toronto

Dr. Gary Davidson, FCIP, RPP, former Director of
Planning and Development, County of Huron

Click link below to download
MIGEDC Focus For Action: Presentation by Gary and Beate (PDF)

A study is now being conducted on the possibility of having a direct flight from Hongkong to Iloilo. This was revealed by City Mayor Jerry Treñas in an interview with the Iloilo City Hall Press Corps.

A lot of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) in Hongkong come from the city and province of Iloilo and also from other provinces in Western Visayas. Read more »

A training needs assessment through a survey questionnaire in early 2007 revealed that government personnel involved in transport planning and traffic management of Iloilo City and neighboring municipalities do not have even the basic knowledge and experience in the said fields. This clearly shows why the issues and problems of traffic hereabouts and around Metro Iloilo have not been resolved with definitive solutions.

The MIGEDC and JICA collaborative project involving the city and nearby towns of Pavia, Leganes, Oton, San Miguel, Sta. Barbara and the Province of Guimaras, will hold a 5-day live-in capacity building seminar-workshop on the “Basics of Transportation Planning, Traffic Management and Engineering, and Traffic Law Enforcement” on September 22-26, 2008 at the Iloilo Grand Hotel. Among other highlights of this Seminar is a fieldwork consisting of traffic survey at some spots along the major streets and avenues of Iloilo City. Read more »