Cotabato traffic plan starts amid closure of dilapidated bridge

COTABATO CITY -- The traffic management unit here commenced Monday a rerouting scheme for incoming and outgoing motorists due to the impending rehabilitation of the Quirino Bridge, the decades-old link of the city to the northern side of Mindanao.

“The rerouting would serve a dry run ahead of the closure of Quirino Bridge,” Councilor Eduardo Rabago, chair of the city council’s committee on transportation, told reporters here in an interview on the same day.

Rabago said public works engineers have declared the bridge unfit for heavy equipment and cargo trucks.

Built sometime in 1950 by the joint action of the United States Bureau of Public Roads and the Philippine Public Works, the bridge serves as one of the oldest functional viaducts in the country to date.

In the last four years ago, however, the Department of Public Works and Highways has been monitoring the deteriorating condition of the bridge.

Under the new traffic rerouting plan, incoming vehicles from Sultan Kudarat town in Maguindanao will use the Delta Bridge to Jojo Guiani Avenue and Jojo Guiani Bridge along Matampay River and proceed to S. K. Pendatun Avenue to the city proper.

Outgoing motorists will use the SK Pendatun Avenue from city proper then to Jojo Guiani Bridge and Jojo Guiani Avenue to Delta Bridge toward Sultan Kudarat town.

Rabago said police and military personnel will assist traffic enforcers to avoid the congestion of vehicles.

Rabago appealed to motorists to observe the rerouting plan to avoid delays on entry and exit points of the city’s northern side. (PNA)

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