Overpass at downtown Kalibo mulled

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BY BOY RYAN ZABAL
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017
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The “Welcome Aloha Kalibo” structure on Mabini Street will have to be removed if an overpass will be built at the downtown area in Kalibo, Aklan. BOY RYAN ZABAL
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KALIBO, Aklan – Mayor William Lachica proposed the construction of an overpass at the downtown area.

The Department of Public Works and Highways shall put up the structure along Mabini and Desposorio Maagma Sr. streets, Lachica said.

The overpass is seen to provide pedestrians — especially pupils from Kalibo Pilot Elementary School, Kalibo Elementary School and Kalibo Integrated Special Education Center — a safer way of crossing the busy streets.

But the “Aloha” structure on Mabini Street will have to be removed.

Right across the Kalibo Pilot Elementary School, the structure is believed to be disrupting the flow of vehicles going to and from Barangay Caticlan, Malay town and Iloilo province, and creating a bottleneck at the Mabini-Archbishop Reyes intersection.

“It threatens the safety of schoolchildren,” said Lachica.

“Welcome Aloha Kalibo” was built in the 1980s. It had undergone renovation after typhoon “Frank” in June 2008.

Children and the elderly also get either killed or injured in accidents across the Dr. Rafael S. Tumbokon Memorial Hospital (provincial hospital) along Mabini Street, Lachica claimed. (With Aklan Forum Journal/PN)

 

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