Pangasinan Airport gets P150 Million
THE Pangasinan airport dream is shaping up.
The national government has already allocated P150-million in the 2009 national budget for the construction of an airport in the province.
This was confirmed by an exuberant Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza, he who first broached the project to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who, in turn, cited it as one of the government’s priority projects under the Super regions program in her 2007 State of the Nation Address.
Braganza while expressing confidence that the airport will be built in his city, home of the popular tourist destination Hundred Islands National Park, he conceded that the final location of the airport may yet end up in another town.
He said that the ongoing feasibility study, which is looking at eight possible sites, may yet identify another town or city as site for the first airport in the province.
“Alaminos should have the first crack as possible site,” Braganza said Wednesday during the Kapihan sa Lenox in a hotel in Dagupan City under the auspices of the Pangasinan Press and Radio Club Inc.
Nonetheless, Braganza stressed that the airport project, wherever it will be located, should become a collaborative effort among local government officials in the province.
The feasibility study will be submitted to the Department of Transportation and Communication for assessment, then to the National Economic Development Authority before the bidding process.
Braganza said the bidding has to be done within the year.
The initial funding is for land acquisition and portions of the construction such as building a perimeter fence.#
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