New Routes to Ease Traffic in Mangaldan, Dagupan City

By Mortz C. Ortigoza  

MANGALDAN - People in this prosperous town and Dagupan City can soon heaved a sigh of relief after the 3.6 kilometers world class highway will be open to motorists between years 2019 to 2021.

“Major thoroughfare from Silverio (Resturant in Dagupan City) to Bantayan, Mangaldan. 3.6 kilometers na project so with that makikita na ang pag ease ng traffic,” Fernando Saguisag Cabrera, administrative officer 4 of the local government here, stressed.

A photo of a new world class highways taken from the internet.

He elaborated that the P1 billion thoroughfares will start from Barangay Bantayan then passes by Barangay Lanas and Maasin here and snaked to Barangays Mamamlingling and Pantal in Dagupan City.

Cabrera said that the ingress and egress where the P3.6 kilometers roads start will be near the Golden Success Hotel here.

Just like Dagupan City, this town has been dealing with a burgeoning numbers of vehicles that pass by it areas everyday.

“Malaking bagay iyan! Ito iyong makakatulong sa growth center,” Department of Public Works & Highway District Engineer Rodolfo Dion earlier said on the multiplier  effect of the proposed multi-million pesos highway that cross Barangays Bonuan Gueset, Mamalingling, and Bolosan to the vaunted economic growth center in the Pantal-Lucao Area that will be a hub of Information Technology-Business Process Outsourcing and other projects of Dagupan City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez.

To ease the traffic in Dagupan City, Dion proposed to 4^th District Congressman Christopher De Venecia to lobby the national government for a fund to jump start the thoroughfares.

“It will be four lanes with three bridges that cost P900 million to P1billion,” he cited.

The District Engineer said that every kilometer would be priced at P200 million because of the materials needed to file on the fishpond areas and the expropriation cost on the right of way.

The right of way, where private properties will be bought and ejected, is estimated by P60 million, he cited.

If acted favorably by the national government, the construction will start in year 2019 and end in year 2021.

He said the plan is to divide it into three phases where one phase is equivalent to one year.

The four lanes highway will be similar to the Judge Jose De Venecia Highway Extension where Dion oversaw its construction decades ago.

He said the DPWH could not just reduce the budget from P900 million to P600 million because they were following a set of costing on the materials for that years.

The new highway will cater to people that traverse the Eastern Part of Pangasinan like those  here and San Jacinto towns, where they would avoid the traffic prone AB Fernandez Street in Dagupan City, in going to Lingayen and other parts of Western Pangasinan.