By Mortz C. Ortigoza
STA. BARBARA, Pangasinan – A one kilometer concrete paved highway costs
the Philippines government twenty five to thirty million pesos, according to
the district engineer of the Department of Public Works & Highways.
“May naging project ako diyan boundary ng Dagupan City papunta crossing
sa Jollibe improvement ng carriage way, shoulder, drainage,” declared by 4th Engineering Office's District
Engineer Simplicio D. Gonzales.
The worth of the 20-meter minimum width and 280 millimeters
(11.02 inches) thick highway cropped up after Gonzales said that his office barred the exit
of all private and public vehicles in a national highway at Barangay Nalsian in Calasiao the
major route going to and from Dagupan City.
The appropriation by the DPWH for the project was fourteen million
pesos for the almost half a kilometer improvement of carriage, shoulder, and
drainage system of the national highway.
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| Officials from various regional government offices of Occidental Mindoro conducted field monitoring of on-going Department of Public Works and Highways and Occidental Mindoro State Colleges (OMSC) projects in Occidental Mindoro.Photo Credit: NEDA |
The construction started in the middle of January he said.
“Mga January sarado para mapabilis at tuloy tuloy ang mga trabaho”.
The improvement works happened after Pangasinan
2nd Engineering
Office raised the level of the concrete highway in Barangay Caranglaan in
Dagupan City that could open floodings during rainy seasons and typhoons in
Barangay Nalsian where Jollibee, Chowking, and other big commercial
establishments are located.
Gonzales did know if the sizes of the drainage created by the Pangasinan 2nd Engineering Office based in capital town Lingayen, Pangasinan are the same as those in
Barangay Nalsian.
The fourteen million project he called “improvement” was part of the
2019 budgetary allocation by the DPWH for his office.
He acted on it because whenever flood besieged the vulnerable Calasiao
town his office was being blamed by various sectors.
Meanwhile, Gonzales said that his office has the following projects
this year in the four towns and one city Third Congressional District
represented by Rosemarie “Baby” Arenas.
He said there are those flood control and road widening in San Carlos
City, road widening in Mapandan, and asphalt overlay preventive measure in Sta.
Barbara.
The asphalt overly lasted up to five years, he said, before it could be
replaced again.
The DPWH used asphalt to protect the concrete paved highway to
deteriorate.
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