Best Route to Baguio [Merged]

[mazdamazda]

I don't doubt that he can do it... my travel time from home-to-work has already been drastically reduced by the various schemes implemented by the MMDA along EDSA.

:2thumbsup:

source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=93063

Fernando: I can cut Manila-Baguio travel time

The Philippine Star

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Bayani Fernando said Tuesday he can reduce the travel time from Manila to Baguio and vice versa — from eight to three hours.

Fernando, who graced the Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) leadership workshop, said he can reduce the travel time from Manila to Baguio “if only McArthur Highway, Manila North Road, and other laterals connecting both roads, are cleared of makeshift shanties of illegal vendors, squatters and other illegal structures.”

He said motoring to Baguio City from Metro Manila on conventional roads, instead of the much traveled expressway route, takes more than six to eight hours due to poor road conditions.

“We can do this if subsequent traffic engineering initiatives were also put in place. Motorists can weave through traffic safely and effortlessly at 80 kilometers per hour to and from Baguio City for only three to four hours instead of the prolonged travel time,” Fernando said.

He conducted a two-day planning session with his staff on the MMDA’s pending and future Metro Gwapo physical change and social reorientation projects.

Fernando said he intends to extend the MMDA’s traffic management authority to the provinces of Bulacan, Pampanga, Tarlac and Pangasinan to help solve the traffic gridlock in these areas.

“The MMDA will initially assess the traffic conditions in the four provinces where motorists traverse going to and from Baguio City and come up with traffic improvement studies and strategies to be submitted to President Arroyo for approval,” Fernando said.

Fernando said Baguio farmers and traders will improve their earning capacity once the roads in these provinces were cleared of all forms of obstructions.

He said MMDA traffic experts will give their counterparts in the provinces of Bulacan, Pampanga, Tarlac and Pangasinan a week-long orientation and training on how to rationalize the use of thoroughfares, traffic enforcement operations and installation of traffic fixtures and signages, among other things.

Fernando said the MMDA has recently extended its traffic management duties to roads leading to Bacoor, Cavite and Laguna as an offshoot of President Arroyo’s directive to help solve traffic problems in these provinces.

He said Tanauan City in Batangas, Obando in Bulacan and Rosales in Pangasinan will follow suit. Jose Rodel Clapano

[nicolodeon]

I think achievable yan.

[impulzz]

based sa title kala ko may gumawa ng 3 hours lang manila-baguio.

sana magawa ng ni BF, kasi sa totoo lang road blockages lang malaking abala na talaga. tapos etong mga enforcers nya turns blind pag jeep or trike ang naka park kahit hiway pa. take for example sa e. rod tapat ng delos santos hospital. yung mga squatter dun sa e. rod naka park mga jeep nila, pero san damkmak na enforcer at yellow boys ang nagkalat sa area.

[chua_riwap]

That's good news.

Yung sa Capas Tarlac (palengke), Hacienda Luisita, at sa Tarlac City proper yan ang madalas magka-buhol buhol ang trapiko. Grabe dyan. Sana ayusin ni BF yan.

[wewoy_romero]

hmmm nagawa namin dati manila to la union in 4hrs pero madaling-araw.

around 250 kms ata manila to baguio, so 250 kms/ 80km/hr = 3.125 hrs. so i guess you have to be traveling at least 80kms/hr to reach baguio. 80kms going up kennon or aspiras highway?

pero sana nga mapatino ni bf ang daan pa-north.

[aizen]

malaking ginhawa kapag nagawa ni FB ito .. tipd sa oras ay tipid sa gas .. plus hindi na tyo mag babayad sa pagdaan sa NLEX

[Gumusut_Amige]

^^^ biruin mo yung hindi taga norte ang nagsusulong nito! kasi ilang presidente na rin ang nagsilbi sa bansa na galing sa norte pero di binigyan ng pansin ang traffic. ituloy mo idol... yan ang bayani talaga

[HIFI]

Actually kaya.

Pero alis namin sa Manila 3:00am....dating namin doon, usually 6-6:30am.

Coming back to Manila is another story. Dapat alis namin doon, 12-1am. Dating sa Manila about 4am. Basta hindi maabutan ang mga dump trucks.

[jcastillo932]

Bukod sa clearing ng hi-ways sa North Luzon going to Baguio, dapat bigyan din ng alternate route ang mga tricycle, di dapat sila dumadaan sa main hi way at para mabawasan din ang aksidente. Tricycles are one of the main source of traffic jam sa North Luzon hi-ways specially on the following areas:

Lusita Mall to Tarlac City (Hi way area), Brgya Carmen in Rosales Pangasinan Intersection, Villasis Pangasinan (Hi way area), Urdaneta City (From Brgy Nancayasan up to are of LIS Resort), and From Posorubio Pangasinan to Sison Pangasinan hiway (Dapat clear yang hiway na yan sa tricycles).

[ghosthunter]

I have driven the Manila-Baguio route in under 8 hours.

Manila-Baguio 5 hours (departed manila at 5am)
Baguio-Manila 4 hours (departed baguio at 11am)

One of the major choke points is Urdaneta. Currently the road works are the major cause of traffic. Then the other is the area around Luisita Mall.