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Good day,<br>
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The suggestions for trunk refinement in Manila, Cavite as well as
Cebu all sound good to me. In Mindoro I think we could consider
having a full circumferential trunk to fix the current
classification gap between Calapan and San Jose. In Panay while
extending trunk to Caticlan I think we should consider downgrading
route 501 Iloilo-Antique Road to primary.<br>
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As for Cotabato City East Diversion Road it will probably be another
1-2 years before the road will start to serve any significant amount
of traffic. <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/727651616">This section</a>
on Sultan Kudarat side of Rio Grande is currently still impassable
for cars during heavy rain and for the <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/965331841">final section</a>
construction hasn't even started yet. <br>
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Another road that I'd like to discuss is trunk between Butuan and
CDO. Route 955 seems to have become the de facto trunk for traffic
between these two cities because of the significant time savings.
The bypassed section of route 9 is now mostly serving traffic to the
various coastal municipalities. How does this off-route shortcut
differ from other bypass roads?<br>
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Looking forward to your feedback!<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2021-10-05 04:02, Jherome Miguel
wrote:<br>
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It's been a week ago since my last post on proposed
reclassification work, this time addressing the case of Metro
Manila and suburban Cavite, but I haven't received any further
comment. Anyone mind to look into this? Also asking for comment
what route is trunk around Cotabato City. I have trunk assigned to
CCDR, even if it's currently incomplete, but it's been moved back
to the slower and older route. </blockquote>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2021-09-24 22:39, Jherome Miguel
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Hi everyone!</div>
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<div dir="auto">I just did a major rewrite of the existing
proposal on proposed road classifications, having identified
what roads will get the trunk and primary tags. Some updates to
note:
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<div dir="auto">- Existing trunk network nationwide will be
largely the same as those under the 2015 guidelines, but with
the addition of some 3-digit (national secondary) routes to
fill major gaps. One such gap is on the Calapan-Iloilo City
corridor, currently trunk in Mindoro, while becoming primary
between Caticlan and Ibajay. Some trunk roads, especially
questionable ones, will go. </div>
<div dir="auto">- The trunk network in Metro Manila will be
limited to Route 1 (EDSA, MacArthur Highway, National Road
from south of Alabang), roads that fill the Route 1 gap from
EDSA-Roxas Boulevard to Alabang, and Route 120 (Roxas
Boulevard, Bonifacio Drive, Del Pan Bridge, Road 10 and C-4).
This network follows what can be considered as the main
through routes in the region that neither follow the
expressways (nor their service roads), is far more ideal that
the existing one with routes where trunk classification is
questionable. Other major surface (i.e. non-expressway) roads
in the region get primary.</div>
<div dir="auto">- In suburban Cavite (i.e. the sprawl stretching
from Bacoor to Dasma), the trunk network will be limited to
Aguinaldo Highway (Routes 62 and 419) and Governor's Drive
east of Dasma (Route 65), roughly paralleling the CALAX route.
All other major highways in the province will become primary.</div>
<div dir="auto">- In the Cebu-Mandaue-Mactan area, trunk will be
limited to Route 840. Current trunk network includes Route
840, Route 8 within the heavily urbanized area (except
bypassed section that lead to Fuente Osmeña), plus both roads
connecting with the bridges to Mactan (the latter being
questionable additions). As Route 840 becomes the sole trunk
route in the area, all the other existing trunks will become
primary. Primary network there will be rationalized in the
Cebu City-Mandaue area (there is quite too much of them in
such a dense area).</div>
<div dir="auto">- The primary network will still largely be the
same, mostly including much of the 3-digit routes where they
have the primary function of linking large towns and other
provincial capitals, plus some of the tertiary national road
network where they link large towns.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Your feedback welcome!</div>
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