P1.5-B road widening project set
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga: The widening to four-lanes of the 18-kilometer portion of the Gapan-San Fernando-Olongapo (GSO) between here and Lubao will soon be started with a P1.5-billion appropriation.
Sec. Manuel Bonoan of the Department of Public Works and Highways (PHWH) was briefed the other at the DPWH regional office on the widening project by assistant Sec. Ramon P. Aquino, former DPWH regional director. The road-widening project with funding assistance from the Korean government will include the rechanneling of the Porac-Gumain River in Guagua.
Public works regional director Alfredo Tolentino said that the next phase of the GSO widening project would be extended up to the Pampanga-Bataan boundary in Layac.
Bonoan also announced that the P4.2-billion widening of the Macarthur Highway between Caloocan City and Apalit, Pampanga is being fast-tracked. The highway is being prepared as toll-free alternate and parallel road to the North Luzon Expressway.
He also said that big commercial buildings encroaching and blocking the road-right-of-way of the Macarthur Highway would also be “chopped” to give way for its widening.
DPWH authorities said that renovation of the major Sulipan Bridge of the Macarthur Highway in Apalit, Pampanga, has been completed and would soon be opened to traffic. It was rebuilt for P380 million coming from the Japan Bank International Cooperation (JBIC).
Bonoan said that DPWH has been rushing the completion of several major infrastructure projects with the department getting the biggest share of this year’s annual budget amounting to P102 billion, including P38 billion from the Motor Vehicle Users Charge and P4 billion from the trust fund of the Land Transportation Office.
--Mark Louie P. Roxas - Manila Times
Sec. Manuel Bonoan of the Department of Public Works and Highways (PHWH) was briefed the other at the DPWH regional office on the widening project by assistant Sec. Ramon P. Aquino, former DPWH regional director. The road-widening project with funding assistance from the Korean government will include the rechanneling of the Porac-Gumain River in Guagua.
Public works regional director Alfredo Tolentino said that the next phase of the GSO widening project would be extended up to the Pampanga-Bataan boundary in Layac.
Bonoan also announced that the P4.2-billion widening of the Macarthur Highway between Caloocan City and Apalit, Pampanga is being fast-tracked. The highway is being prepared as toll-free alternate and parallel road to the North Luzon Expressway.
He also said that big commercial buildings encroaching and blocking the road-right-of-way of the Macarthur Highway would also be “chopped” to give way for its widening.
DPWH authorities said that renovation of the major Sulipan Bridge of the Macarthur Highway in Apalit, Pampanga, has been completed and would soon be opened to traffic. It was rebuilt for P380 million coming from the Japan Bank International Cooperation (JBIC).
Bonoan said that DPWH has been rushing the completion of several major infrastructure projects with the department getting the biggest share of this year’s annual budget amounting to P102 billion, including P38 billion from the Motor Vehicle Users Charge and P4 billion from the trust fund of the Land Transportation Office.
--Mark Louie P. Roxas - Manila Times
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