City traffic council to address Clark gridlocks

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By Ashley Manabat

ANGELES CITY – A city council resolution creating the Angeles CityClark Traffic Management Council (AC-CTMC) was approved during the regular session of the sangguniang panlungsod here last Tuesday.

Councilor Jesus “Jay” Sangil sponsored the resolution “in order to oversee the flow of traffic at the ingress-egress points” of the nearby Clark Freeport Zone (CFZ) which has become a bottleneck especially during rush-hour traffic.

Sangil’s resolution stated that CFZ is an economic center that hosts thousands of investor-firms, commercial enterprises, government agencies and residents.

“It is also home to the Disodado Macapagal International Airport, a much vaunted alternate and twin airport to the Ninoy Aquino International Airport,” it added.

As such, with all these combined - and while (vehicular traffic congestion) serves as an indicator to progress and upliftment - are also “precursors to social and economic costs that are created especially if government fails to prepare mitigating measures.”

Sangil said among the principal concern and social cost is the worsening vehicular traffic brought about by the in creasing volume of motorists (vehicles), pedestrians, vendors and even public utility vehicles.

Sangil said the AC-CTMC will be tasked to oversee the worsening traffic in order to provide a smooth flow of vehicles at the busy CFZ access.

The AC-CTMC will be composed of representatives from the city government, the Clark Development Corp. (CDC), Clark International Airport Corp, and SM City Clark.

Meanwhile, the CDC is yet to make public the Traffic Impact Assessment made by the UP- National Center for Transportation Studies last year on the said CFZ ingress-egress.

However, the CDC said recent development on road constructions in the CFZ ingress-egress are meant to help mitigate vehicular traffic in the area.

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