P638-M CEBU UNDERPASS PROJECT OPENS TO TRAFFICBy The Manila TimesCEBU CITY: The Department of Public Works and Highways-Central Visayas (DPWH-7) on Saturday morning opened the P638-million Mambaling, Cebu underpass project to traffic with a simple prayer and blessing ceremony. DPWH-7 Director Edgard Tabacon said the structure was opened at 10 a.m., aiming to ease the traffic flow along the N. Bacalso Avenue-F. Llamas Street junction, in time for the opening of classes. The underpass project, which began in 2017, became controversial when parents ranted on social media about the terrible traffic that had affected their children’s travel time to school. However, the DPWH-7 and the Cebu City Traffic Office maintained that the project was the solution to the traffic congestion in the area, which has two supermarkets, a fast food restaurant and other business establishments, as well as the city’s oldest main thoroughfare before the Cebu South Coastal Road.

Source: Manila Times June 15, 2019 19:18 UTC