Santiago Bridge will use discarded materials
FROM DEMOLISHED ROCKWELL BRIDGE
SANTIAGO Island in Bolinao will soon
end its isolation with the construction soon of a steel bridge that will link
it to mainland Pangasinan using the still serviceable materials of the
about-to-be demolished Estrella-Pantaleon Bridge or Rockwell Bridge between
Makati and Mandaluyong cities.
This was assured following a meeting in Malacanang last week among Executive
Secretary Salvador Medialdea, Public Works Secretary Mark Villar, Jojo Garcia,
general manager of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA), Governor
Amado Espino III, Fifth District Rep. Amado Espino Jr. and former
Transportation Undersecretary Thomas Orbos.
It was Orbos, also former MMDA general manager, who sought for the transfer of
the serviceable materials to be retrieved from the Rockwell Bridge for use in
the construction of the Santiago Bridge, noting that only a barge owned by a
private individual serves the more than 12,000 residents of Santiago Island.
Santiago Island is made up of seven barangays–Binabalian, Goyoden, Lycero,
Pilar, Salid, Dewey and Victory.
For this, a memorandum of agreement need to be signed by Governor Espino and
Public Works Secretary Villar to effect the transfer of the bridge materials to
be retrieved to Pangasinan.
The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) recalled that during the incumbency of
Governor Rafael Colet, the materials taken from the old Carmen Bridge, also
called Plaridel Bridge, when it was replaced with a new one, were also
transferred to Western Pangasinan that were used in the construction of the now
Anda Bridge in 1991 that finally ended the
isolation of Anda town from mainland Pangasinan.
The SP said the construction of the Santiago Bridge will be part of the Build,
Build, Build program of President Duterte. (Leonardo Micua)
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