DPWH assures Novo Vizcayanos of road projects' completion by 2016

By Ben Moses Ebreo

Tuesday 19th of June 2012

BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya, June 19 (PIA) -- Officials of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) here said the national arterial roads and secondary roads in the province are set to be completed by 2016.

Engr. Perfecto Urban, chief of the planning division of the DPWH’s 2nd engineering district, said their office has been instructed to ensure that all secondary national roads must be finished by 2016 while all arterial roads in Nueva Vizcaya should be completed by 2014.

“This is the instruction of President Benigno Simeon Aquino III so that by the end of his term, all major national roads in the country will be fully completed and used by various sectors,” Urban said.

He added that by 2013, more than P175 million will be released to their office to carry out necessary works for the completion of major national roads in Nueva Vizcaya.

“This amount will be released solely to our district but another fund will also be released to our DPWH 1st engineering district,” Urban stressed.

As of this year, Urban said their engineering district is presently working on the Nueva Vizcaya – Pangasinan Road Project and the construction of three major bridges in Kasibu town, particularly in Barangay Papaya with two bridges, and one in Barangay Antutot.

He said they have just completed road rehabilitation projects in Bambang town and the P50-million Bambang-Kasibu widening/flood control projects, among others.

For the DPWH 1st engineering office, the following projects are also being constructed, such as the road rehabilitations in Diadi town, Barangay Bascaran in Solano town, widening of the Solano national highway, asphalt overlay of the national road in Barangay Vista Hills in Bayombong town and in Bagabag town, among others.

“Rest assured that these projects will be completed as scheduled by our President so that our constituents will benefit fully from these projects,” Urban said. (BME/PIA 2-Nueva Vizcaya)