Villar vows to address Metro Cebu’s flooding, traffic problems
PUBLIC Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar said he will address Cebu’s flooding and traffic problems “swiftly and relentlessly.”
He said the 85 mm rainfall in Cebu that caused massive flooding and traffic gridlock in some parts of Metro Cebu is cause for alarm.
“As soon as I heard about it I immediately wanted to get involved,” he said in a consultative meeting with Mega Cebu stakeholders in Cebu City Wednesday morning.
Villar was notified of the situation by presidential assistant to the Visayas Michael Dino, a Cebuano businessman who was in Metro Manila when he learned about the flooding here.
Villar said they will do everything within their power to solve the flooding and traffic woes faced by Cebu.
Among the proposed programs of DPWH are the creation of a comprehensive drainage master plan, the pursuit of flooding and drainage projecs left from last year and upgrading of existing drainage systems in Metro Cebu.
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