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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Tuesday, December 27, 2016
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BACOLOD City – Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) workers will occupy the two inner lanes of the four-lane Araneta Avenue as they prepare the foundation of a planned flyover.
The flyover, which Mayor Evelio Leonardia solicited from the DPWH when he was congressman, will be built along Araneta Avenue-Magsaysay Street.
District Engineer Abraham Villareal of the DPWH-Bacolod City District Engineering Office said Gil Villanueva, project director of the agency’s Bridges Management Cluster-Unified Project Management Office, sought for the space to prepare for bored piling activities.
The Sangguniang Panlungsod approved the request last week.
“The bored piling foundation works will commence as soon as possible,” Villanueva told Villareal in a memo on Nov. 28. “The flyover bridging materials will arrive at Bacolod City port of entry from Subic town port, province of Zambales anytime.”
Villanueva said the concrete barriers will enclose Araneta Avenue’s two inner lanes once bored piling starts. The outer lanes will remain open to traffic.
Bored piling involves boring circular holes into the ground, installing steel reinforcement and filling the holes with concrete to form a pile.
The intersection along Magsaysay Street will remain open to traffic, too, “until such time the project has been completed,” he said.
The flyover will be built under the Public Works department’s Mega Bridges for Urban and Rural Development Project.
It was one of the two Leonardia asked from the agency, but the other one, supposedly along the circumferential road near Lopue’s East mall, had been shelved. Each had an estimated cost of P365 million./PN
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