With the visible beehive of activities now going on around the old Franklin bridge that was destroyed by the big flood of 1934, the excitement over the completion of the Pantal bridge has risen.

      Department of Public Works and Highways regional director Fidel Ginez said Toyo Construction of Japan, the contractor,  has started pile-driving and clearing the remnants of the bridge’s ruins and is expected to complete the phase by February next year.

     The contractor was given 22 months or earlier to complete the project.

     He said all the tubular piles imported from Japan that are needed for the bridge have arrived at the project site.

     The new Pantal Bridge will be part of a more than four-kilometer Dagupan Diversion road which starts from Dawel to barangay Lucao with a carriage way of 12.7 meters, good for four lanes.

     The P903 million bridge, funded by the Japanese government through the Japan Bank for International Cooperation, however, is designed for two lanes.

      Ginez said the new Diversion Road, now about to be concreted with an initial budget of P20 million made available by Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. from his Countrywide Development Fund, will have a separate alignment perpendicular to the Nel-Ars subdivision, similar to the suggestion made earlier by Mayor Benjamin Lim.

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