More bridges to be completed soon
THREE multi-million peso bridges in Pangasinan will be inaugurated in July and another bridge in December, according to Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr.
De Venecia announced this Thursday after conferring with Public Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane in Manila.
Aside from this, the new Pantal Bridge funded by a P900 million loan from the Japanese Bank for Economic Cooperation is set to begin sometime this year in Dagupan City, spanning the Pantal River.
Opening in July are the P50 million Tulong Bridge in barangay Inamutan, Manaoag; P23 million Mitura bridge in Urdaneta City, and the P120 million Lelemaan Bridge, also in Manaoag.
All these bridges are located along the Urdaneta-Manaoag road, route normally taken by pilgrims going to the pilgrimage town of Manaoag from the south.
DPWH Regional Director Fidel Ginez said the Tulong bridge was funded by a soft loan of the Philippine government from the government of Austria. The British government assisted by providing steel trusses for the bridge.
To be opened to traffic sometime in December this year is the Domalandan Bridge in Lingayen, dubbed as one of the longest bridges in the Philippines. The bridge has to be replaced entirely after it was destroyed by a big flood in 1999.
Ginez said that the DPWH has committed another P100 million for the construction of the bridge, to be boosted by another P100 million to be released sometime by the third quarter this year.
The amount is on top of the P100 million released by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo early this year during the town fiesta of Lingayen. The construction of the Domalandan bridge started way back in year 2000 through the yearly outlay the DPWH.
Gov. Victor Agbayani, Rep. Amado Espino Jr. and Lingayen Mayor Ernesto Castañeda thanked President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for the yearly allocations being given to the province.
When completed, the Domalandan bridge would cost around P900 million.
Ginez said the winning bidder, Toyo Construction of Japan, is now only awaiting the notice to proceed with the project before building the new Pantal Bridge in Dagupan.
The new bridge will connect two new highways built through the Countrywide Development Fund of de Venecia across former swamplands.
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