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CEBU City – A report based on a popular navigation app that listed Cebu as one of the cities in the world with the “worst traffic situation” will not affect tourist arrivals here, a Department of Tourism official said Thursday.
Region 7 officer-in-charge Judy Gabato does not believe Cebu, which ranked 186th in Waze’s Driver Satisfaction Index 2016, is worse than Metro Manila, which ranked 170th.
“We are better off than Manila,” Gabato stressed.
The Waze study looked into traffic density and severity, quality of roads, infrastructure, road safety, driver services, social economics, and “wazeyness,” or the happiness and helpfulness of the Waze community.
Despite the traffic in Cebu, some three million tourists visited Central Visayas as of the second quarter of this year, Gabato said.
The figure is already more than halfway to the DOT’s regional target of 5.8 million visitors for 2016, she said.
The national government is also putting up a P10.6-billion Bus Rapid Transit system — the first-ever mass transport system in Cebu — that is expected to be completed in 2017. (PNA)
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