U-turn slot speeds up C-5 Road travel by 90% – MMDA

abscbn

U-turn slot speeds up C-5 Road travel by 90% – MMDA

Monday, August 18, 2008
The traffic flow along C-5/Kalayaan Road has shown dramatic improvement over the past two weeks due to an elevated U-turn slot in the area, Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) officials said.

MMDA officials said travel speed from Lawton, Manila to Buting, Pasig has reportedly increased from 17.93 to 34.14 kilometers per hour (kph), reflecting a 90 percent improvement in travel time.

From Pasig to Manila, travel also became faster by 14 percent, with a speed from 19.45 kph to 22.14 kph due to the project, they said.

Statistics showed that travel speed from Commando link in Taguig to Lanuza, Pasig also increased by 54 percent, from 28.85 kph to 44.3 kph.

The southbound lane from Pasig City to Global City also improved in travel speed by 107 percent, from 17.16 kph to 35.45 kph.

MMDA officials, led by Chairman Bayani Fernando, said the elevated U-turn slot in C-5/Kalayaan is working effectively.

Records showed that 153,796 vehicles pass through the area everyday based on a 2007 vehicle volume count by the agency’s Traffic Engineering Center (TEC).

The MMDA now expects 237,993 vehicles to use the elevated U-turn slot daily, which, it said, will not be a problem for as long as a second similar structure opens in the area.

The second elevated U-turn project will benefit northbound motorists who also use the C-5/Kalayaan road from the South Luzon Expressway (SLEX) to Ortigas and Quezon City and vice versa.
MMDA officials said it will also be useful for vehicles coming from Pateros to Makati City and Pateros to the SLEX. – Michael Punongbayan

I know this news is late, however, I would just like to get your reactions if their claims holds true, since I've been taking the PUV to go to work.

I've traversed the route on a weekend and it seems to be working. I just don't know if it's the same story on weekdays, 'cause normally, cars builds up in the corner of julia vargas.

With regard to building a similar stracture on the opposite end, isn't it similar to a flyover when it comes to function? Bayani's really adamant with his U-turn scheme.

kanski

abscbn wrote: »

I know this news is late, however, I would just like to get your reactions if their claims holds true, since I've been taking the PUV to go to work.

I've traversed the route on a weekend and it seems to be working. I just don't know if it's the same story on weekdays, 'cause normally, cars builds up in the corner of julia vargas.

With regard to building a similar stracture on the opposite end, isn't it similar to a flyover when it comes to function? Bayani's really adamant with his U-turn scheme.

get to pass here during weekends only so my obsrvations wouldn't truly be valid. nevertheless, traffic was smooth on the 2 weekends i've passed through here since the u-turn overpass has opened.

however, this overpass is another example of how the mmda has uglified our roads. instead of creating a straight overpass for traffic traversing c-5 (which is the main artery in the intersection discussed) they've constricted c-5 to barely accommodate 3 cars side by side where the u-turn overpass starts and ends.

ushuaia_ph

according to them, yan ang pinakamurang solution. instead of constructing ala ortigas or makati flyovers. pumangit? pwede, pero ano ba yung pangit? sa akin ok lang hitsura nun.

malaki ang improvement ng intersection na c5 kalayaan.

MeFan_YouJane

he he, nakakatawa nga at parang biglang natahimik ang mga critics nitong project na ito sa LAFI

mazdamazda

Traffic has improved by a lot along C5... sure there are the occasional monstrous traffic jams but overall it has sped up travel.

RetroManila

I was one of the skeptics of this project. Mga ilang beses ko na rin nadaanan to. Wala pa namang masamang naidudulot. Medyo madilim lang talaga.

But the MMDA U-turn slots at Commonwealth Avenue, now that's a different story.

keoboi

yeah it's much faster now... now if they could do something about the people getting off jeepney's while they're taking the u-turn on the other side now we're talking progress

rendaku

You see, because we've become used to the worst, it consoles many of us to have the worse. Even if the u-turn crap improved traffic in C5 by 100%, i.e., from 10kph to 20 kph (BF has lots of bull, we know that), MMDA, headed by that 100% m0r0n power-overfed politician BF, will not be able to compensate for the damage it is doing on our roads (they narrow down and block our roads and make many of our tax-spent roads and accesses useless), on our environment (they cause added emissions by enforcing longer trips and traffic jams), on our morale (traffic jams--life wasted stuck in traffic), our culture (pink fa66ots everything), our financial resources (stup1d prez allowing cashflow to mmda to waste in BF's ironworks), our cost of living (it increases, but the quality decreases), our well-being (his contraptions are environmental hazards), our hope (he's too excited to run for president and bully and dictate his whimsical ways through.) Those bunch of monkeys think they have everything on the road at their disposal. Pasikat lang ang mokong. Pasensiya na po, ang laking disservice kasi ang ginagawa ng mga ito sa bayan.

abscbn

^I agree those pink fences are such an eyesore, specially the ones in Ayala, they're all mangled and the commuters look like chickens in a pink cage!

Regarding what I posted, I did pass by the C-5 route on a weekday, it was a Monday at that. It was around 9 am, normally the build up of cars would start before you make a right going to Ultra, now it's on the bridge itself, however, I would have still preferred a flyover, over the elevated u-turn. Besides, in the long run, they still need to build a similar structure on the opposite side for it not to cause any problems.

kanski

ushuaia_ph wrote: »

according to them, yan ang pinakamurang solution. instead of constructing ala ortigas or makati flyovers. pumangit? pwede, pero ano ba yung pangit? sa akin ok lang hitsura nun.

malaki ang improvement ng intersection na c5 kalayaan.

hindi pumangit aesthetically, although this also holds true. what i meant by saying it uglified c-5 has to do with how a proper road network should be.

there is no question that traffic improved along that intersection. but i'd like to stress 2 things: first is, any little improvement in that intersection would ease traffic (thus the praise); and second, i think that a better design would have both worked better and have left better options for future improvements.

as always, budget is as a factor in decisions in building infrastructures like this. but i just wished that they would pass on small projects that waste money (like removing the island on white plains ave., it's as if it changed anything. pera rin yun that could have gone into something else more useful instead of somebody's already deep pockets) and put it in projects such as this, that are critical for the citizenry. i have a feeling that in the end, when this u-turn overpass is deemed inadequate, we would have just spent more money unnecessarily.

my opinion folks.

karahasan

Was supposed to make a topic like this, but I figured there were little to no C5 wayfarers here.

Anyway, I'd like to pitch in, considering that I take that route every weekday to school (in QC) from Muntinlupa.

Weekdays (except Fridays)

(7:30am - 12:00noon time frame) Before: Heavy traffic used to extend from the problematic intersection to as far as slightly (or on) past the flyover right before eastwood city. Now: bad traffic is now confined to the flyover before said intersection.

(3:30 - 5:30 time frame) Before: moderate to heavy traffic; now: light to moderate traffic.

Overall, I'd say that the elevated U-turn cut my travel time by around 10-20 minutes. However, like a lot of drivers, I would have preferred an underpass/flyover. Also, now I'm waiting for what they can do with that stupid bottleneck in SLEX (around Bicutan toll and skyway ramp).

(6:30 - 8:30 time frame) Before: heavy traffic; now, a mix between the first two timeframes

Fridays

Generally the same as the weekday traffic flow except

(6:30 - 8:30) Before: Heavy traffic; Now: light traffic, at the expense of the guys going from makati to taguig. Now, they have to contend with the heavy traffic of the lane going from c5 to eastwood. As in pila sa elevated u-turn. No wonder some people hate it.

Other timeframes weren't mentioned because they're light regardless of the elevated u-turn.

Overall, I would say that the U-turns cut my travel time by around 10-20 minutes, which is around 20%-30% of my usual travel time (i.e 45 - 90 minutes). Nowhere near what the MMDA claims, but it helps.

mazdamazda

Passed by there yesterday again at around 5PM... Eastwood Libis to RCBC Makati in 20 minutes.

the_BuGs

eti ba yung elevated U-turno sa may papuntang bicutan? sa may rembo makati ba yun?

rendaku

ushuaia_ph wrote: »

according to them, yan ang pinakamurang solution. instead of constructing ala ortigas or makati flyovers.

That is according to them and their proven incapacity to think. Their stone age minds just can’t handle the traffic situation of the mobile and motorized Filipinos and so incompetent and lame to discipline public transportation. BF looks at vehicles and roads like they are oxen, dirt paths and fences. Now he comes up with permanent structures to advertise without limit his presidential candidacy. He never realize—and looks like he never would--that mmda is overstaffed, that if he would only utilize them (I don’t mean in cleaning the soot-laden….yeah…he doesn’t know that pollution causes soot…. walls and discolored pink and blue fences in edsa—only in the Philippines that wire mesh fences along a highway are manually cleaned with rag, soap and a pail of water by a platoon of illiterates who would otherwise be making unfortunate babies in the morning hours) or educate them on proper implementation of our laws (hindi puro plate coding lang ang alam nila), if he would only equip them (and I do not mean uniforms, or those red flags and sticks, or those stup1d signage accessories they wear--they might as well place a taong-grasa where the blue-shirt monkeys are—vehicles drive faster past a taong grasa anyway) so they can coordinate traffic flows from various origins and destinations. No, BF is not serving metro manila or the country; he is merely making pa-pogi, preparing to bully his way to big-time power-tripping.

rendaku

3cylinder wrote: »

Meron pa ngang article sa village voice sa Alabang entitled U-turn slots saves fuel.

#@%& Napamura ako dun ah...

karahasan

rendaku, we have a local and foreign issues thread in PEX, and in it, a topic about Bayani Fernando. If you really hate him that much, post there. This topic is about the elevated U-turn helping ease traffic or not, not bayani manipulating cars like oxen or what-not.

Please stay on topic.

xx_lithium

rendaku wrote: »

That is according to them and their proven incapacity to think. Their stone age minds just can’t handle the traffic situation of the mobile and motorized Filipinos and so incompetent and lame to discipline public transportation. BF looks at vehicles and roads like they are oxen, dirt paths and fences. Now he comes up with permanent structures to advertise without limit his presidential candidacy. He never realize—and looks like he never would--that mmda is overstaffed, that if he would only utilize them (I don’t mean in cleaning the soot-laden….yeah…he doesn’t know that pollution causes soot…. walls and discolored pink and blue fences in edsa—only in the Philippines that wire mesh fences along a highway are manually cleaned with rag, soap and a pail of water by a platoon of illiterates who would otherwise be making unfortunate babies in the morning hours) or educate them on proper implementation of our laws (hindi puro plate coding lang ang alam nila), if he would only equip them (and I do not mean uniforms, or those red flags and sticks, or those stup1d signage accessories they wear--they might as well place a taong-grasa where the blue-shirt monkeys are—vehicles drive faster past a taong grasa anyway) so they can coordinate traffic flows from various origins and destinations. No, BF is not serving metro manila or the country; he is merely making pa-pogi, preparing to bully his way to big-time power-tripping.

Big-time power tripping? We need more politicians like him. Teach the Filipinos some dicipline.

rendaku

karahasan wrote: »

rendaku, we have a local and foreign issues thread in PEX, and in it, a topic about Bayani Fernando. If you really hate him that much, post there. This topic is about the elevated U-turn helping ease traffic or not, not bayani manipulating cars like oxen or what-not.
Please stay on topic.

Ok. Sorry po, sir/ma'am.

rendaku

xx_lithium wrote: »

Big-time power tripping? We need more politicians like him. Teach the Filipinos some dicipline.

Na-correct na ko ni karahasan--i was off topic. Sa LAFI na lang siguro. Cheers!

RetroManila

Medyo nakatulong sa traffic yung U turn slot, pero di naman ata bumilis ang traffic by 90%.

ale828

i think we have to wait until the other elevated U-turn in the other side finishes construction to gauge its effectivity.
i pass here a lot and my complain is the sudden bottle neck under the elevated U-turn which is Ok kung cars lang but C-5 is traversed by lots of large trucks and motorcycles which slows down the movement of cars. An overpass would not make cars slow down, so in effect an overpass would make travel way faster than the elevated U-turn.