DPWH To Build P1.5 Billion Coastal Bypass Road With Reclamation Component In Maasin City
Maasin City in Southern Leyte will get an alternative link
to the commercial district – a 4.71-kilometer coastal bypass road with
reclamation component, meant to ease traffic woes and expand the city’s
development.
The planned road, which will cost P1.5 billion, will get an
initial budget of P50 million this year, said Ma. Margarita Junia, Chief of the
Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Southern Leyte District
Engineering Office.
The proposed road, one of the key infrastructure projects in
Eastern Visayas, will connect the city’s commercial center in Lib-og village to
nearby populated village of Mambajao.
It will traverse coastal areas of Abgao, Tunga-Tunga, and
Combado villages.
The preliminary release, strongly lobbied by Representative
Roger Mercado for inclusion in the 2017 appropriations, will be used for the
preparation of feasibility study for multi-year implementation, initial road
construction, and some slope protection.
“The main roads leading to the city center are already
congested even if those roads are restricted to one lane,” Junia said,
referring in particular to R. Kangleon and Tomas Oppus Streets.
“We cannot expand to the other side of the city since it’s
mountainous,” she added.
Maasin, a fourth-class city and capital of Southern Leyte
province, has a land area of 211.70 square kilometers with a population of
85,560.
The city’s terrain is characterized by relatively flat lands
along the coastal plains where population areas lay, and becomes rugged and
mountainous toward the interior.
DPWH Southern Leyte Planning Section Chief Vincent Sy said
the proposed budget for the project in 2018 is P200 million.
“Releases in the next years will mainly depend on the
outcome of feasibility study, which will be completed within the first half of
the year,” Sy added.
The project is in compliance with DPWH Secretary Mark
Villar’s directive to decongest traffic through construction of by-pass roads
in populated areas.
DPWH To Build P1.5 Billion Coastal Bypass Road With Reclamation Component In Maasin City
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