A Muntinlupa City Council committee wants the Skyway management to stop its construction of an off-ramp widening project in the city due to lack of permits.
The project will result in narrowing of a portion of the West Service Road that will affect traffic flow.
The Committee on Engineering, Public Works and Infrastructure headed by Councilor Francis Ian Bagatsing conducting a public hearing on the Skyway off-ramp widening project (Photo from the Sanggunian Secretariat-Muntinlupa)
The Skyway off ramp widening project (Contributed photos)
The Committee on Engineering, Public Works and Infrastructure headed by Councilor Francis Ian Bagatsing submitted its recommendation to the City Council after conducting a public hearing on the “inquiry on the widening of Skyway resulting to narrowing of West Service Road.”
The project involves that ongoing widening of the Skyway off-ramp at Filinvest in Alabang towards the Alabang-Zapote Road that will narrow the existing West Service Road in the area.
In its report, the committee said the “narrowing of West Service Road southbound towards Filinvest Northgate is due to the additional exit tollbooth being constructed by the Skyway management.”
It said the portion of the West Service Road affected by the project will lose about 1.2 to 2 meters of “carriage way because of said expansion.”
“Residents, establishments and some stakeholders along West service road are not amenable to the said Skyway exit tollbooth expansion since this will result to a ‘funneling’ and will only result to traffic jam,” according to the report.
The City Engineering Office and Office of the City Building Office said the Skyway widening project did not apply for a permit, the committee added.
The committee recommended that “since the said construction project at the time of the hearing does not have any permits from the city, the Chair/Committee recommended for its stoppage.”
It directed “the Skyway management to apply all necessary permits within the city, submit an alternate proposal which will not result to the narrowing of the said West Service Road portion and submit a traffic impact assessment report from a reputable traffic consultancy firm if indeed their project will not really hamper the flow of traffic along the said road once it is completed.”