[talk-ph] Your final say on the proposed road classification scheme

[Jherome Miguel]

On the proposed reclassifications I'm documenting at uMap, I've been trying
to identify trunk and primary routes across sprawling urban areas of places
like Metro Manila, Metro Cebu, Davao and Cagayan de Oro. Those places are
are a different beast from the rest of the country. What route gets trunk
Class needs to be carefully selected especially where they’re part of the
same corridor. Primary should generally be assigned to main thoroughfares,
and for me, best not assigned on any road without a road number, with the
possible exceptions.

Some ideas:

- Metro Manila: keep most of existing trunk network, but with upgrades to
Alabang-Zapote (Route 411, whole including connector to CAVITEX), Quirino
and Diego Cera (Route 62), and section of NAIA Road between Roxas Boulevard
and Quirino to trunk to close Route 1 gap across metro. I'm also inclined
to downgrade the España-Quezon Ave-Commonwealth trio (plus Lerma, Quezon
Boulevard and Padre Burgos) back to primary (as they used to be ~10
years ago); even with their high traffic volumes and physical character
that are similar with EDSA (e.g. wide carriageways, center islands, grade
separations), these needs to be downgraded under the new classification
scheme; again, we need to be more selective on assigning trunk to major
routes across sprawl like Metro Manila and surroundings.
- For suburban Rizal, Laguna and Cavite, I'm thinking about doing away with
most trunks in suburban Cavite and all in Rizal. Can keep trunk for
Aguinaldo Highway (Routes 62 and 419) up to Dasma as well as Governor's
Drive east of Dasma and General Malvar in Biñan (Routes 65 and 651) as
trunk, but downgrade Tirona, Centennial, Antero Soriano, Route 64
Tanza-Trece, Governor's Drive and Aguinaldo Highway to Tagaytay) west of
Dasma (as well as connections to Nasugbu from Tagaytay and Ternate). Should
do away with any trunk in Rizal (including Sumulong Highway, part of the
Antipolo Circumferential Road, Ortigas Ave, Manila East Road and bypasses,
plus connections in eastern Laguna and part of western Quezon Province like
Route 603 all the way to Lucena).
- For Metro Cebu, which currently has two trunks through Talisay, Cebu
City, Mandaue, Consolacion and Liloan, plus dead-end trunks assigned to the
bridges across to Mactan, I'm thinking of moving trunk to the whole of
Route 840 (CSCR, Osmeña, Ouano, Plaridel, Cansaga Bay Bridge, and
Consolacion-Tayud-Liloan), being the best route to Cebu City these days
than the bypassed sections of Natalio Bacalso and Cebu North Road even with
the Consolacion-Liloan segments being recent upgrades from provincial road
(and therefore narrow and lower-standard until some time). Route 8 north
and south of Route 840 can remain as it is (plus cleanup of parts are
messed up by “MonitoringGPS”).
- For Davao City, trunk network is fine. Primaries around Davao City may
need some partial tweaks, especially those linking C.P. Garcia/Diversion
Road with city proper. Should consider downgrade for Libby Road between
Toril and Talomo (would consider this secondary being functionally lower
than MacArthur Highway, plus road being narrow and classified national
tertiary).
- For Cagayan de Oro, trunk network is fine (may move trunk classification
to the bypass formed by the Coastal Roads, San Pedro Street and San Lazaro
Road once the missing link near port opens). Primary network good, but
should consider downgrade to J.R. Borja and the road to Libona and Manolo
Fortich (low speeds, narrow carriageway, less traffic and lower official
classification).

Sorry for the late reply, having another pause from mapping. I've been also
looking up the talk-us archive for the latest discussion on reforming U.S.
road classifications that has been pointed out earlier here.
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