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Metro Cebu traffic execs urge Cebuanos to brace for heavy traffic on 51st IEC

CEBU CITY, Jan. 23 (PNA) -- Traffic managers in the cities of Cebu, Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu have urged Cebuanos to brace for heavy traffic during the 51st International Eucharistic Congress (IEC) set on Jan. 24 to 31.

Traffic officials in the three cities said heavy traffic was expected as they would implement road closures during the IEC, including the closure of one lane of the old Mandaue-Mactan bridge.

Lawyer Rey Gealon, Cebu City Traffic Office (CCTO) executive director, said roads around the Plaza Independencia near the Cebu port would be closed Sunday afternoon for the opening mass of the IEC.

On Jan. 28, Thursday, one lane of the old Mandaue-Mactan bridge from Lapu-Lapu City to Mandaue will be closed to vehicular traffic from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. to make way for some 5,000 delegates joining the Youth Pilgrim Walk.

Glenn Antigua, chief for operations of the Traffic Enforcement Agency of Mandaue (Team), said all vehicles going to Lapu-Lapu should pass through Marcelo B. Fernan Bridge, the second bridge linking Cebu mainland and Mactan Island.

About 5,000 youth will join the pilgrim walk from the Hoopsdome in Lapu-Lapu city to Mandani Bay grounds in Mandaue City where they will have a vigil until 8 a.m. the following day.

Lapu-Lapu City Traffic Management Systems chief Frank Brazil said they agreed that Team will start clearing the roads at 2 p.m. The walk starts at 4 p.m.

Only the Lapu-Lapu-bound lane will be used by the youth delegates so that vehicles traveling from Lapu-Lapu to Mandaue can use the old Mactan bridge.

Gealon said roads around Osmena Blvd. In Cebu City would also be closed to vehicular traffic in the early afternoon on Friday, Jan. 29, during the procession from the Cebu Capitol to Plaza Independencia.

Gealon said the area near the IEC Pavillion on Pope John Paul II Ave. in Barangay Mabolo, Cebu City would also be closed at certain times of the day during the IEC to give way to buses ferrying delegates to the main IEC venue.

Organizers have rented at least 100 Ceres buses from Vallacar Transit Corp. to ferry some 15,000 delegates from their hotels to the IEC Pavilion and vice versa.(PNA)
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