CEBU CITY, Philippines -- Major streets in Cebu went through over seven hours of traffic jam from early morning to early afternoon today, August 13, 2019, after traffic lights in 14 street
Traffic jams are now a daily occurrence in Cebu City, particularly during morning and afternoon peak hours. It worsened on Tuesday, Aug. 13 2019, when 14 traffic lights in key intersections malfunctioned. |CDN Photo
Ronei Nadera, the spokesperson of CCTO, told CDN Digital that in the past three years, the Scats would have at least one major breakdown, similar to the malfunctioning of 14 sets of traffic lights on Tuesday. However, these requests gathered dust in the mayor’s office as the Scats remained to be the primary and only traffic system of Cebu City since the 1990s.Nadera said that CCTO chief Ricardo Barandog plans to send a letter to Mayor Edgardo Labella to request for upgrades of the SCATS.The malfunctioning traffic lights were repaired at 2 p.m., seven hours after the discrepancy was noticed at 7 a.m., when the traffic lights of fourteen junctions stopped being synchronized.
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