The upgrading and widening of Arellano Street in Dagupan City is 98 percent complete as of August 31, but there has been no marked improvement in the flow of traffic in the area.

Second Highway Engineering District Rodolfo Dion, who announced last week that the two percent of the work remaining to be done is on the restoration of a few portions of sidewalks, said he would ask the city government to draw up a strategy to improve vehicular flow.

“I will ask the POSO (Public Order and Safety Office) to clear the roadside of parked tricycles that wait for passengers,” Dion said.

He said some portions of the sidewalk still cannot be done because of right-of-way issues that are still being negotiated by the Dagupan City government.

Dion said he is confident that property owners who have illegally encroached on portions of Arellano Street will comply fully to restore the sidewalks.

“I am confident that the remaining property owners will give way to the construction of three-meter side walks fronting their establishments and houses like many others who have cooperated,” he said.

Costing P36 million, the upgraded Arellano Street is 800 meters long and 12.10 meters wide, excluding three-meter sidewalk on both sides. The road was raised by 18 centimeters to keep the road passable at all times.

Undertaken by the contractor BMK Construction, it is considered as the biggest pump-priming project of the Department of Public Works and Highways in Dagupan this year.

The project includes a drainage system on both sides located between the road pavement and the sidewalk but was designed to be in the same level as the road. –LM

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