After 20 Years, DPWH Opens P4 Billion Cagayan De Oro Coastal Road For Public Use

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Mark Villar opened the Cagayan de Oro Coastal Road for public use, a project which has started in 1997, Friday, November 10.

“The Construction of the 12.77-kilometer Cagayan de Oro Coastal Road will serve as a bypass road starting from Barangay Gusa in the eastern side all the way to the western side in Barangay Igpit, Opol in Misamis Oriental, thus connecting six (6) barangays in the city and two (2) barangays in Opol,” Secretary Villar said.

“The project will reduce travel cost by 30% and cut travel time by almost 50%. Now, a trip from Laguindingan Airport to the city proper is reduced to only 20 minutes,” he added.

The Cagayan de Oro Coastal Road has been suspended prior due to unresolved RROW issues.

The Lapasan section has been negotiated and demolished on August 25.

“The P4 billion project is expected to ease access in the Eastern Side of Macajalar Bay in CDO, Gingoog in Bukidnon, Misamis Oriental and CARAGA,” Secretary Villar said.

“The project is expected to reduce travel cost by 30% within the region,” he added.

While the Gusa-Agora Section of the Coastal Road will be opened this November, the construction of the Agora-PPA-Corrales section is still ongoing.

This 2017, two projects are still ongoing in the eastern side in Lapasan and another in Puntod section.

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Source: DPWH