All national roads already passable except via Bani, Aguilar towns
THE Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) 1st Engineering District released a public advisory on July26, Thursday, that national road network in Pangasinan is already passable except for the Garrita Bridge along Bani-Alaminos roadline which is passable to light vehicles only.
Engineer Oliver Celeste, chief planning officer of DPWH Pangasinan 1, said trucks and buses including mini-buses are still advised to take the Bani-Agno-Burgos-Alaminos or Pangasinan – Zambales road line or via Bani-Ambabaay road as alternate route.
Meanwhile, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is rushing the completion of a bailey bridge that will temporarily replace the Subol bridge in Aguilar that collapsed at the height of the flood in that town.
Rhodyn Luchinvar Oro, Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Officer, said he inspected the bailey bridge and was assured that it will be finished in two weeks at the most.
But since the Subol Bridge is a vital span that connects Bugallon and Lingayen to Mangatarem, and San Clemente and Camiling, Tarlac, the DPWH central office ordered the completion of the bailey bridge in four to five days, Oro said.
With the collapse of the Subol Bridge, commuter buses from Camiling going to Dagupan via Bugallon, Lingayen and Binmaley are taking a detour via Urbiztondo and from Mangatarem to San Carlos City via Binmaley or Calasiao.
Working on the bailey bridge are crews from the DPWH district office and the regional office in San Fernando City, La Union.
Meanwhile, Oro tagged the washed out irrigation dike in Barangay Alibago, Sta. Barbara as the one that aggravated the flooding in Calasiao, San Carlos City and Dagupan City.
He said the Sta. Barbara government and volunteers tried to reinforce the irrigation dike with sandbagging dike in the morning of July 20 after noting a leak but the dike eventually gave way in the afternoon of that day due to the rampaging water of the Sinocalan River. (Leonardo Micua and Nora Dominguez)
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