Flyover won’t push through near church

By Edison A. Delos Angeles Inquirer Visayas

CEBU CITYThe prayers of nuns at Asilo dela Milagrosa church have been answered.

The proposed flyover project in front of the church will no longer push through after a traffic impact study prepared by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Project Monitoring Office showed that it was not feasible.

Instead, the DPWH recommended that an underpass be built to ease traffic at the intersection of Gorordo Avenue and Archbishop Reyes Avenue where the church compound is located.

If an underpass were to be built, both sides of Gorordo Avenue would have to be widened to accommodate two additional lanes, one on each side.

Nuns of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, who run the church and orphanage inside the compound on Gorordo Avenue, resorted to prayer power in fighting off the proposed flyover project.

The nuns expressed fears that the flyover would disrupt church services. The proposed flyover would have eaten at least 3 meters off the church grounds including part of the garden where a grotto of the Blessed Virgin Mary is located and part of the churchs front yard.

The flyover on the intersection of General Maxilom Avenue and M.J. Cuenco Avenue here is likely to push through, however, after its proponents settle right of way issues.

Carmelito Tizon, of the DPWHs Project Monitoring Office, gave a briefing on the impact study on the project at the DPWH Central Visayas office on Tuesday.

Tizon said the impact study was prepared to determine the traffic characteristics of certain intersections and identify solutions to bottlenecks.

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Flyover won’t push through near church