One-Hectare Underground Parking in Dumaguete City

When did this happen? I was there several years ago and I thought it was a complete traffic gridlock (especially around the port/market/oceanfront/national highway/basically anything near the downtown area between the two bridges on the national highway going north and south) and a dirty, hellishly hot, urbanized, cesspool to boot. When I was there it took me 30 minutes to driver around the market, that was about twice the size of the Dumaguete market, due to a horrible traffic jam of trikes. Absolutely no way for me to weave my way through that mess as it was so tightly packed with trikes there was barely enough room for me to put my legs down....a few times I had to prop myself up on the leg rests of the trikes due to it being so tightly packed and to keep my legs from getting pinned/broken. Sucking in black soot from all the trikes the entire time.

Spoiler: I Hate Ormoc!

I was stuck in that shithole for 2 nights waiting for a ferry to Cebu due to bad weather/rough seas and I hated every second of it. Food was terrible, the nicer hotels/resorts would barely earn a 2 star review from me, there was a massive gathering of Muslims promoting their religion on the boardwalk one night, the girl I hooked up with one night I had to kick out of the room because her snatch smelled like someone was cooking Filipino dried fish up there and stunk up the entire room, I had to bribe the port authority to get them to sign off/approve my registration and then I had to bribe some little snot-nosed homeless kid that was "working" at the port to open the security gate to let me load my bike on to the ferry (the security guard also refused to open the gate until I paid the bribe to the little sh*t-head). The only good thing I can say about that city is that, "hey, at least I didn't get mugged."....though I'm sure if I had stuck around much longer I might have had that happen as well.

The only place I hate more than Ormac is the island of Masbate.

Considering all that has been going on in Dumaguete and the Visayas recently and over the years I think they need every single service that company is offering. Good to see they are reaching for outside help about the cities issues. (Though I'd love to see the face on that company's assessment team when they get their first ride through the city. )

 

I believe this thread is the most recent one on traffic.

Traffic is probably the most popular topic on this forum. It has been subject to many opinions/thoughts since this forum first came online. This is why I have very little faith the issue will ever be resolved. Just search "traffic" and you will that it is spoken about ad nauseam....and traffic has only gotten worse over the years.



I'm going to go ahead and lock this thread since it seems that everything that's going to be said about the underground parking lot has already been said.