Hope news of Dawel-Lucao road opening not ‘kuryente’

By Gerry Garcia

TODAY, Palm Sunday, is the beginning of the Holy Week (Semana Santa) that will end gloriously on Easter Sunday commemorating the resurrection of Christ.

Palm Sunday is celebrated with palm branch decorations signifying Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem . . . a happy welcoming event which, by the way, almost coincides with an equally victorious event which took place yesterday Saturday — the opening of the new Dawel-Pantal-Lucao road, a 4-kilometer diversion road expected to end (daw) the daily traffic jams gripping the city’s downtown area.

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  We’d like to thank Engr. Romeo Rosario of the City Planning and Development Office for his positive reaction to our suggestion regarding the conversion of the old Pantal road into a riverside boulevard instead of building one in the business district parallel to AB Fernandez street.

At least we have reason to be grateful as the criticism comes from an officer of the city’s planning and development department itself.

We also are hoping Engr. Rosario will agree to our other suggestion that  the old Franklin Bridge formerly linking the city proper to Barangay Calmay be rebuilt to help the government achieve the two-fold end  of furthering the development of Calmay and its neighboring barangays and to help ease burgeoning traffic in the city’s inner streets. Barangay Calmay resting on the west bank of Calmay River used to be the site of Dagupan’s erstwhile first private school run by the Dominican fathers — the San Alberto Magno College which was, together with the Franklin Bridge, washed away by the devastating floods of 1935. The Franklin Bridge was also Dagupan’s one and only steel bridge linking Poblacion Dagupan to its sister barrios on the other side of the Calmay river.

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What follows is a corrected reprint of a carelessly computer-typed paragraph in last week’s column.

Off-the-cuff run down on what makes the GMA regime most “evil”.

After joint agreement with ASEAN for a stand-off vs. China in the Spratly problem, of RP suddenly left on its own and joined China on a joint seismic “exploration” of areas including the Spratlys in exchange for multi-B “loans” from which government bureaucrats and politicians could skim $400 M in kickbacks up to 2010.

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