By Anthony Giron
TAGAYTAY CITY, Cavite---The city’s three main roads will be made one-way streets beginning Maundy Thursday until Easter Sunday to ease traffic congestion, particularly during peak hours.
Tagaytay has a number of Catholic churches, seminaries and convents and other pilgrim sites and parks, hotels, restaurants and other recreational areas for tourists.
The one-way traffic plan covers Jose P. Rizal Street in Barangay Maharlika, the two-kilometer-stretch of Aguinaldo Highway from Petron-Maharlika to Hagdang Bato, Barangay Mendez-Crossing East; and the Tagaytay-Nasugbu Road where vehicles also bound for Batangas pass.
City Traffic Management Office and Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Unit Chief Jose Clyde Yayong said that the one-way traffic scheme will be enforced from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Three to six traffic enforcers and mobile men will be assigned to intersections in the three areas to guide motorists.
Yayong said that about 300,000 vehicles are expected to pass the designated one-way streets on peak hours particularly during the last four days of Holy Week.
Traffic is heaviest from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 6 to 9 p.m., Yayong said.