Tackling Traffic congestion in Improving urban Mobility in Baguio City
Tackling Traffic congestion in Improving urban Mobility in Baguio City
The Issue
One of the most pressing urban challenges experienced now in the City is that the increase of vehicle specifically private cars and tourist arrivals. Currently, private cars have the highest percentage of vehicles (but not necessarily carry the most passenger volume of passengers) on Baguio City roads which put immense pressure and immense traffic on city's road carrying capacity (CLUP-Baguio City,2010-2020). The easing of the traffic problem should be a priority of the Baguio City government. The traffic jams experienced by the city during prolonged holidays will soon be felt during the periods outside of the said holidays. The purchasing power of many local residents, and for that matter Filipinos in general, have increased tremendously. They can not be prevented from pursuing their cherished dream of buying their own cars, motorbikes and others. https://www.zigzagweekly.net/baguio-traffic-and-tourism/
If ever they change, ban or reduce mostly tourists coming over to the city and vehicles. Then traffic woes will heighten. Conversely, the less Baguio is promoted then there are no new activities, no new attractions, no new improvements, etc- the less number of visitors come in. Then, lower income for local businesses will be realized, and city coffers will become a little impoverished.
To summarize, Tourists coming to Baguio can not be prevented as well from using their own cars, as it is more convenient for travel especially when travelling as a family or with some friends. They can only be advised to leave their cars behind. Additionally, The city, I think, is not really wanting on proffered solutions. For instance, it has thought of coming up with parking areas for tourists’ vehicles way before they reach Baguio. It’s good but the preliminary groundworks and actual implementation plans were not in place, so it was not good enough.(https://www.zigzagweekly.net/baguio-traffic-and-tourism/ ) Lastly, it much better if mostly tourist should know how to follow road rules and they should be disciplined and learn what are the regulation of our city.
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The Issue
One of the most pressing urban challenges experienced now in the City is that the increase of vehicle specifically private cars and tourist arrivals. Currently, private cars have the highest percentage of vehicles (but not necessarily carry the most passenger volume of passengers) on Baguio City roads which put immense pressure and immense traffic on city's road carrying capacity (CLUP-Baguio City,2010-2020). The easing of the traffic problem should be a priority of the Baguio City government. The traffic jams experienced by the city during prolonged holidays will soon be felt during the periods outside of the said holidays. The purchasing power of many local residents, and for that matter Filipinos in general, have increased tremendously. They can not be prevented from pursuing their cherished dream of buying their own cars, motorbikes and others. https://www.zigzagweekly.net/baguio-traffic-and-tourism/
If ever they change, ban or reduce mostly tourists coming over to the city and vehicles. Then traffic woes will heighten. Conversely, the less Baguio is promoted then there are no new activities, no new attractions, no new improvements, etc- the less number of visitors come in. Then, lower income for local businesses will be realized, and city coffers will become a little impoverished.
To summarize, Tourists coming to Baguio can not be prevented as well from using their own cars, as it is more convenient for travel especially when travelling as a family or with some friends. They can only be advised to leave their cars behind. Additionally, The city, I think, is not really wanting on proffered solutions. For instance, it has thought of coming up with parking areas for tourists’ vehicles way before they reach Baguio. It’s good but the preliminary groundworks and actual implementation plans were not in place, so it was not good enough.(https://www.zigzagweekly.net/baguio-traffic-and-tourism/ ) Lastly, it much better if mostly tourist should know how to follow road rules and they should be disciplined and learn what are the regulation of our city.
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Petition created on February 25, 2025