Best Posts in Thread: One-Hectare Underground Parking in Dumaguete City

I honestly can not see the point in it?

Back in my City in Oz Private companies build Parking complexes as well as Toll Motorways etc and many times they have gone broke when people either park elsewhere or drive around the tolls like I do/did. I REFUSED to travel on a roadway where taxes raised from gasoline are supposed to go towards the building/upkeep of road ways. Sorry but an extra 5 minutes driving will not kill me! (Same goes for parking)

Unless there is a Super Mall built on top of this underground Car Park to attract the people enmasse, I cannot see how/why it will attract 1000 cars a day to pay to park there, meaning 1000 people a day will need to catch a Tricycle/Jeepney to their final destination, adding to an already overcrowded traffic problem, let alone the company building it recovering their outlay in a timely fashion.

Also in my city back in Oz, it use to have two-way streets leading in and out of the city, but the council there eventually changed the two way to one way which helped a LOT by running all traffic coming into the city via one two-lane road, to the top of the city where it looped back to another two lane road leading back out of the city with one way and two way streets leading into and out of each side of the city. They also installed MORE traffic lights which were timed to change so that the traffic flowed effectively, often you could time it so you could drive through the city without having to stop at any intersection, many intersections also had sensor pads under the road so when little to no traffic was flowing along a major road, when a vehicle came in from a side road, it sensed the vehicle and quickly changed the lights so that the vehicle can go on its way without waiting very long for the lights to change. The Highway By-pass was the BEST thing they ever did to get the Trucks OUT OF THE CITY!

The technology is there, I just wonder why it is not being utilised to make the traffic congestion inside Dumaguete more bearable...

As Dr. Shiva stated; Park and Ride system.
We have 'Park & Ride' areas in Oz where they are mostly located BESIDE a Train Station or somewhere where there is reliable Bus transport that can safely and comfortably transport the people who use these places to their desired destinations. Ipswich City uses smaller Buses that are brightly coloured and Air-conditioned and run at regular intervals covering a vast area to make them appealing to users. They also run on LPG which does not pollute like Gasoline and Diesel! This system could greatly reduce the traffic congestion, noise and pollution that Dumaguete is well known for, making it a by far more appealing City for Tourists to visit, not to mention the health benefits it would create where people (mainly the locals who work in the city every day) would no longer need to walk around wearing annoying uncomfortable face masks to try and minimise the health risks involved whilst making a living.

Many originally criticised Ipswich when they stepped into the new millennium by introducing clean Buses, rolling out fiber-optic internet, fitting CCTV Cameras to almost all of their inner city streets before expanding to the outer suburbs, installing more traffic lights etc but over time MANY other cities began to adopt the same strategies, because in time it all proved to be VERY EFFECTIVE and thankfully the forward vision proved to be the right thing to do. It ended up creating a very effective and safer city in the long term, something Dumaguete could easily do by setting examples to the rest of the country...

Just my opinion...

 

Sounds good in Theory but and there is always a but, I would hope that they will get all the papers in order as we have seen at times they do not actually own what they think they own, I refer to a Basket Ball Court in the outer City that was gifted to the City but never documented and now is a House Build. it had been a Court for 40+ years and on the death of the father the land was reclaimed. We now know that one side of the road where a bridge collapsed was privately owned now there may be a problem on that issue so my meaning was nothing here seems to be as it seems so some digging and verification really does need to be done. The Actual Area for Parking seems Ok as I read it but what about Access. stairways, pay Booths? As with many things I see and hear over the last 15 years, I "Won't" hold my Breath. Think Airports!

 

Yes, if you go up the street from the proposed parking lot there already is underground parking across from the gymnasium. Not a soul uses it!