Austrian firm submits cable car proposal system for Cebu City

Cebu City, Cebu – First was the proposal for a light rail transit (LRT) system. This was followedby a plan to to launch a bus rapid transit (BRT) mass transport system. Now, an Austrian company is proposing the establishment of a cable car system to help solve traffic congestion in major streets here.

Mayor Michael Rama said the City Council will hold an executive session with the Doppelmayr Garaventa Group to learn more about the latter’s proposal to set up a cable car system in the city’s mountain barangays as an alternative mode of transportation.
Doppelmayr is an Austrian company that manufactures chairlifts, cable cars, gondolas, surface tows for ski and amusement parks as well as urban people movers and material handling systems. To date, Doppelmayr has produced over 14,400 installations in 88 countries.
Norbert Federstein, Doppelmayr area manager for Asia-Pacific, said cable cars are environment-friendly and user-friendly, an alternative to the earlier proposed BRT and light railway transit system.
Still, even as he has yet to hear what the Doppelmayr group has to say, Rama does not seem too be keen on the idea, saying that cable cars may be more appropriate for recreation facilities rather than for mass transportation.
“We are not used to this kind of transportation and we know a lot of people are afraid of heights,” said Rama, who is known to support the plan for a bus rapid transport system for the city.
The cable car proposal of Doppelmayr came after the National Economic and Development Authority Board deferred approval of the city’s proposed P10-billion BRT mass transport system.
 
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Ozzy Osbourne is now in Cebu for an Island Hopping Vacation

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CEBU, Philippines—Rock icon Ozzy Osbourne was seen in an airport in Cebu on Wednesday, reportedly on his way to an island-hopping vacation. Osbourne is the former vocalist of the legendary heavy metal rock group, The Black Sabbath. Its major hits “Paranoid,” “War Pigs” and “Iron Man” are among the classic rock songs still played on FM radio stations, clubs and covered by both veteran and aspiring rock bands all over the world. Osbourne and his family also headlined the reality TV show “The Osbournes,” which was aired from 2002 to 2005 on MTV. 


More info. from Wikipedia

Ozzy Osbourne
Vocalist
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is an English heavy metal vocalist, songwriter, and television personality. 

Spouse: Sharon Osbourne (m. 1982), Thelma Riley (m. 1971–1982)
Children: Kelly Osbourne, Jack Osbourne, Aimee Osbourne, more
Music group: Black Sabbath

With his Family

 

Worth Php 15 Billion Bridge linking Cebu City to Cordova

The cost of the portion from Shell Island to Cebu City will be shared between MPIC and the Cebu City Government.
Sitoy said they will rename Shell Island into Isla Trece Una-Una, which is about four kilometers from Cordova mainland. Shell Island is only 520 meters (or a little more than half kilometer) from Cebu City.
He said MPIC Vice President Mon Fernandez and MPIC counsel Aristotle Batuhan are in Cebu and have been conducting project briefings.
Sitoy said the other morning, Fernandez and Batuhan conducted a briefing before members of the group that advocated Mega Cebu. In the afternoon, they met with Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama.
Yesterday, Sitoy said, MPIC officials lunch meeting with the group of Cebu Gov. Hilario Davide III, represented by lawyer Mark Tolentino; and Cordova officials headed by him, at Marco Polo Plaza.
“This bridge project is a one hundred percent a done deal. Go, go go,” Sitoy said.

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The construction of a fifteen-billion peso toll-bridge linking Cebu City and Cordova is said to be starting early next year. The project will be spearheaded by Metro Pacific Investment Corp. (MPIC) of business tycoon Manny V. Pangilinan.

Meanwhile in Cebu - SM Seaside City Cebu Updates

SM Seaside City Cebu is shopping mall owned and developed by SM Prime Holdings located in Cebu City, Philippines. It is expected to open in 2015. SM Seaside City Cebu will be SM's third mall in Cebu and 52nd mall in the Philippines. The mall is designed by Arquitectonica, the same company which designed SM North EDSA, SM Mall of Asia and SM Megamall. On April 12, 2011, SM Prime Holdings held a ground breaking ceremony at the mall's location.

The SM Seaside City Cebu will be a circular-shaped retail mall with multiple anchors, including a two-story SM Department Store and SM Hypermart, a five-theater Cineplex and IMAX Theatre, an 18-lane SM Bowling and Amusement Center, and a food court flanking an ice skating rink.

In addition, the mall will have over 2,000 food and retail shops, including international brands. Retail shops will occupy the outer arc of the mall on the ground floor. This area will include a furniture zone as well as a fashion boulevard.

SM Prime Holding’s President Han Sy said that the company has made adjustments to its destination mall project at SRP, in terms of budget allocation to P8.5 billion, from the original budget of P6 billion.