Transport stations near the Bataan highway mulled

BALANGA CITY, Bataan- The provincial government is looking for strategic transport stations in four municipalities as an effective system of improving the soaring traffic problems along the stretch of the major road artery in Bataan.

Mabini Pulido, Jr., assistant provincial assessor, said that Governor Albert Raymond S. Garcia is exploring the reasonable sites to be utilized as multi-functional mini-parking and waiting areas for transport workers in Abucay, Hermosa, Limay and Mariveles towns.

He said hundreds of fuel tankers, cargo trucks, heavy-equipment, public and private vehicles oftentimes take advantage of the roadside of the 70-kilometer Roman Superhighway as parking areas which resulted to delay in the delivery of goods and services, road accidents and other inconveniences to travelers.

Pulido explained that the establishment of transport stations would ensure efficient flow of traffic from the Freeport Area of Bataan in Mariveles to Hermosa Economic Zone in Hermosa.

Illustrating the province’s growing economy at rapid a pace, Pulido said the project is vital to the main road network of carrying out expanding volume of cargoes coming in and out of Bataan to resolve worsening traffic woes.

Pulido added that Governor Garcia is readying to interlink the Roman Superhighway  and Governor Linao National Road to Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) with large  port facilities that would hasten the shipment of export products coming from the province’s several  ecozones to the world market.