BY: ANALIZA S. MACATANGAY
NAGA CITY, Feb.17 (PIA) --- The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has effected the closure of San Jose Bridge starting Feb. 15 to give way for its total rehabilitation and to ensure safety of road users plying the Maharlika Highways in Pili town portion.
The second engineering district office of DPWH in Camarines Sur found that the bridge now posed danger to users due to years of wear and tear since it forms part of the Maharlika Highway that caters to all types of vehicle 24/7 thus defects to the sturctures were noted.
DPWH will immediately start the rehabilitation and improvement of the bridge paving the way for the proposed four-lane road link.
Under the first phase, the DPWH has allotted P20M and another P40M for the second phase.
San Jose Bridge was constructed in 1964 and had its first rehabilitation in 1970. It also underwent major repairs in 1984 carried out by then Ministry of Public Highways, now DPWH.
Pili Mayor Alexis San Luis meanwhile said that commuter’s safety matters that the local government will help assist DPWH and the road users in the wake of some inconveniences the closure of the bridge will bring.
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“We have to allow the closure since San Jose Bridge is more or less 50 years old and its replacement is long overdue,” San Luis stated.
Last Feb. 8, DPWH has since implemented one-way traffic scheme allowing north-bound vehicles to use the San Jose bridge, while south bound vehicles took the detour spillway bridge adjacent to the damaged bridge.
Following total closure of the bridge, DPWH designated alternate routes, including Alternate Route A for buses, trucks and loaded vehicles: Grijalvo, San Fernando to Antipolo, Hobo, Minalabac – Ombao, Bula- Pawili, Pili and vice versa ; Alternate Route B for light vehicles : Amparado, Milaor- San Francisco, FVR bridges I, II, III AND IV, Mataoroc, Minalabac- Tagbong, San Isidro, Pili and vice versa and Alternate C, also for light vehicles : Palestina, Pili – Maydaso, Milaor- FVR bridges I, II, III AND IV, Mataoroc, Minalabac- Tagbong, San Isidro, Pili and vice versa.
San Luis has asked road users and commuters to bear in the meantime the inconveniences for in the long run the project will bring safe and better road links. (MAL/LSM-PIA5/Camarines Sur)
NAGA CITY, Feb.17 (PIA) --- The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has effected the closure of San Jose Bridge starting Feb. 15 to give way for its total rehabilitation and to ensure safety of road users plying the Maharlika Highways in Pili town portion.
The second engineering district office of DPWH in Camarines Sur found that the bridge now posed danger to users due to years of wear and tear since it forms part of the Maharlika Highway that caters to all types of vehicle 24/7 thus defects to the sturctures were noted.
DPWH will immediately start the rehabilitation and improvement of the bridge paving the way for the proposed four-lane road link.
Under the first phase, the DPWH has allotted P20M and another P40M for the second phase.
San Jose Bridge was constructed in 1964 and had its first rehabilitation in 1970. It also underwent major repairs in 1984 carried out by then Ministry of Public Highways, now DPWH.
Pili Mayor Alexis San Luis meanwhile said that commuter’s safety matters that the local government will help assist DPWH and the road users in the wake of some inconveniences the closure of the bridge will bring.
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“We have to allow the closure since San Jose Bridge is more or less 50 years old and its replacement is long overdue,” San Luis stated.
Last Feb. 8, DPWH has since implemented one-way traffic scheme allowing north-bound vehicles to use the San Jose bridge, while south bound vehicles took the detour spillway bridge adjacent to the damaged bridge.
Following total closure of the bridge, DPWH designated alternate routes, including Alternate Route A for buses, trucks and loaded vehicles: Grijalvo, San Fernando to Antipolo, Hobo, Minalabac – Ombao, Bula- Pawili, Pili and vice versa ; Alternate Route B for light vehicles : Amparado, Milaor- San Francisco, FVR bridges I, II, III AND IV, Mataoroc, Minalabac- Tagbong, San Isidro, Pili and vice versa and Alternate C, also for light vehicles : Palestina, Pili – Maydaso, Milaor- FVR bridges I, II, III AND IV, Mataoroc, Minalabac- Tagbong, San Isidro, Pili and vice versa.
San Luis has asked road users and commuters to bear in the meantime the inconveniences for in the long run the project will bring safe and better road links. (MAL/LSM-PIA5/Camarines Sur)
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