Masskara Festival Approaches, BTAO To Implement Road Closure

MASSKARA FESTIVAL – As the 40th Masskara Festival fast approaches, the Bacolod City Authority Office will start a road closure.

The much awaited festival in the “City of Smiles” Bacolod City, Negros Occidental will start at October 7 (Monday) and will end in October 27 (Sunday). With this, the Bacolod City Authority Office (BTAO) will enact a rod closure for this iconic event.

According to SunStar, BTAO Police Lieutenant Colonel Luisito Acebuche said that the closure will start from the streets of Rizal-Gatuslao up to the streets of Gonzaga-San Juan from 4PM up to 4AM of the following day.

About 70 enforcers will be deployed in order to ensure the smooth flow of traffic, Acebuche said. He added that there will be a parking spot at the back of the Bacolod Public Plaza at the festival opening.

As per the report, for the Southbound Public Utility Vehicles (PUV) from Araneta Street, they will detour to the following routes:

right to Roxas Street
right to Lacson Street
right to Magsaysay street
left turn to Araneta up to the destination.

Southboud PUV from Hernaez Avenue will take the following routes:

right to Gatuslao Street
from Brgy. Taculing turn left to Hernaez Street
right to Luzuriaga Street
right to Mabini Street
left to Margarita Street
left to Lopez-Jaena Street
right to Hernaez Street up to point of destination

For Northbound PUVs, they will take the following route from their point of origin:

right to Burgos Street
left to Palanca Street
left to Luzuriaga Street
right to Alunan Extension
right to Capitana Dicag Road
left to Roxas Street
left to Lacson Street
right to Lizares Street up to Hernaez Street
left up to Locsin Street
left to Rizal Street
right to Gatuslao Street
right to North Capitol Road
left to Aguinaldo Street
right to BS Aquino Drive
left to Lacson Street up to the point of destination

For Eastbound PUVs, they will take the following route from the point of origin via Burgos Street:

left to Lacson Street
right to Gonzaga Street
right to Locsin Street and Galo Street
left to BBB Street
right to Burgos Street up to the point of destination

The road closure will be enacted at the Fererro Street in the Vendors Plaza. Another road closure will also implemented at Tourism Street along Lacson Street and a one-way traffic scheme at Gatuslao and Aguinaldo streets on October 25 to 27, Acebuche said.

Villa Angela and Helvetia Streets will also have a one-way traffic scheme during the festival with 84 deployed enforcers. A truck ban will be enacted at the Circumferential Road on the same date with 390 deployed officers.

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