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FORMER senator John Henry ?Sonny? Osmeña suggested that both proposals for a Light Rail Transit (LRT) and Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) for Metro Cebu wait until after the 2010 elections.
?Why are they in a hurry? Do they just want to leave something when they leave their post? Or do they just want something that they could take with them?? asked Osmena in Cebuano in a recent YouTube post.
The former senator, who plans to run for Cebu City mayor next year, described as ?unrealistic?, the proposed LRT of the AMA Group Holdings Corp. because it only covers the area from Talisay City to Mandaue City.
He said traffic congestion extends beyond the cities of Cebu, Mandaue and Talisay.
?So any mass transportation system has to extend itself. They should serve the so-called ?urban corridor? which is the Danao to Argao corridor,? he said.
Osmena said the BRT system proposed by his cousin Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmena was better because it was less costly than the LRT.
IN a separate development, Rep. Eduardo Gullas (Cebu 1st district) criticized Mayor Osmena for putting out a full-page newspaper advertisement, which projected himself as the only mayor who refused the controversial lammpost deal for the 2007 Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit.
?Osmeña's humility, or to be more specific, his lack of it is well known, so his psychological need to advertise his supposed rectitude is understandable,? said Gullas.
However, he said that for the mayor ?to impliedly accuse others (who approved of the lamppost deal) of inappropriate conduct while trumpeting one's own virtues is inappropriate and unacceptable.?
Gullas said in a statement that it was ?unfair? for Mayor Osmeña to lump the lamppost and the proposed LRT together as examples of alleged corruption.
He said these were two separate projects.
