Improved capabilities?

When news about the increase in parking fees has been approved by the city, we were expecting readers to complain about the P5 difference, but the main complaint has been mainly on those “watch your car boys,” who also collect from the motorists.

We remember writing about this matter many months ago. Here is an email from a reader that was sent last week. He asked to remain anonymous and here is his email:

I have no problems with the City increasing parking fees. It’s a good thing for the City.

I would, however, expect that the City would also do away with the “watch your car”fellows that insist on additional money being given to them or your car gets scratched, dented, etc. That’s the least that they can do for motorists helping improve the revenues of the City in a justifiable manner.

Would it also be possible for Citom to field more traffic enforcers to assist in the better flow of traffic in key areas and appropriately apprehend PUJ drivers who are allowing passengers to ride or disembark from the middle of the road and do not move even when the traffic light turns green, and the rest of the vehicles want to move ahead?

Would it also be possible for CITOM to finally evaluate all public utility drivers to see if they know their basic road courtesies before they are allowed to drive vehicles for hire again? 

Just wondering as the fees have increased - they should also have increased capabilities already.

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The smaller Sinulog celebrations held last Sunday resulted to unwanted traffic congestion in the southern part of Cebu City.

Several readers complained about the situation and we hope that our leaders would realize that such activities would affect many people, whose plight must also be considered aside from the residents of the barangay.

We also got several complaints about roads being closed without proper notice particularly one lane of the Mambaling access to the SRP as a group was practicing their dance last Friday night.

Do they have the right to just close a road? If this is how our barangay officials think and how our city officials tolerate such, then forget about bringing in investors, because you might just disrupt their business with unnecessary festivities.

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Here’s one more email from reader Jesson Morata that we hope the traffic authorities in Mandaue will look into:

Sir, the matter I’m going to raise I think is also being shared by other motorists for both private and public vehicles. This is about the traffic signs of the different major and minor thoroughfares of Mandaue City. As you may have noticed it also, the traffic signs like No Left Turn, No U-Turn and others are not noticeable or visible to motorists.

Lately, there have been some re routing schemes made by the traffic body in Mandaue to address the volume of vehicles passing by the city considering the fact that the city serves as a transient point of vehicles Northbound as Southbound, as well as being an industrial site.

I would like to suggest to the traffic think-tanks of the city to modify and upgrade the existing traffic signs that are currently being put up in the streets and roads of the city. Most of these signs are too small and less visible.

I think it’s but high time to change these traffic sings with bigger ones and with reflectors to as to make them visible to motorists. I sympathize with those motorists who sometimes get apprehended with the traffic authorities of the city because of their failure to notice the traffic sign. I would like also to suggest that the traffic body of Mandaue to be consistent with their traffic routes because in a span of few months, new traffic schemes are implemented.

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