Among the biggest projects the office will start
soon is a diversion road that will link the coastal villages of Naungan and San
Juan in this city.
Both communities are close to each other but are
separated by marshlands. Reaching one village to the other requires a boat ride
or driving 11 kilometers by land. Building a road in between will connect the
two villages and cut short the travel distance to only four kilometers.
“Since San Juan serves as boundary to the next town
of Merida, the proposed road will also reduce the distance from downtown to
nearby town to 20 kilometers from the present 27 kilometers,” said district
engineer Lino Francisco Gonzales said on Thursday.
The coastal road will prove useful vehicles going
further to Leyte Industrial Development Estate in Isabel 47 kilometers away.
The DPWH has initially released PHP300 million to
cover one kilometer of the project. Gonzales assured the project will be included in
the department’s multi-year programming until the entire undertaking is
completed for PHP2 billion.
Aside from having the six-lane, 30-meter wide road
parcellary titled, the field will not observe the tradition of developing from
the inner lanes out, but instead will concretize the outer four lanes and place
an island in between to prevent encroachment by illegal settlers. (Felix
N. Codilla/PNA)
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