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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Friday, April 28, 2017
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BACOLOD City – A team from this city will be sent to Iloilo and Manila to check out the latter cities’ bicycle lanes.
Bacolod is implementing its ordinance providing for the construction of bike lanes on several thoroughfares.
A group from this city will learn how Iloilo and Manila put up and are using their bike lanes by getting details, including measurements and physical requirements, according to Rep. Greg Gasataya.
Gasataya met with representatives of the Department of Public Works and Highways, Bacolod City Police Office’s Traffic Management Unit (TMU), Bacolod Traffic Authority Office (BTAO), and the bikers’ club at the City District Engineering Office on April 24.
The team shall head back to Bacolod by first week of May, when they will “finalize everything,” said Gasataya.
City Ordinance No. 556 is also known as “The Bike Lanes Ordinance of Bacolod City.” The Sangguniang Panlungsod approved it on Sept. 22, 2011.
Bicycle lanes or bike-friendly zones must be put up on Burgos Street, corner Circumferential Road up to Barangay Alangilan, and the Bacolod-Murcia Road in Barangay Alijis up to the Bacolod City-Murcia, Negros Occidental boundary in Barangay Mansilingan, the ordinance said.
These were identified based on the recommendation of the BTAO and the TMU.
Bicycle lanes/bike-friendly zones will “safeguard bikers from accidents and other road-related incidents,” the ordinance stated.
But “it is not feasible to establish bike lanes and bike-friendly zones in all parts of Bacolod City, especially the congested areas like the downtown area, Libertad area, Burgos area, and Lacson Street, among others,” said the ordinance.
The Road Board of the DPWH has approved a P62-million budget for the implementation of the ordinance.
Initially they agreed to make the bike lanes one meter wide, but this may change after the observation visits, Gasataya said.
There shall be no parking and loading/unloading of public utility vehicle passengers on the bike lanes, said the congressman./PN
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