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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Wednesday, December 28, 2016
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BACOLOD City – A steel bridge in Zone 6, Barangay Handumanan will be inaugurated around 3 p.m. today.
The 22-lineal-meter bridge with checkered plate flooring connects Handumanan Elementary Schools 1 and 2 to Handumanan National High School, according to the City Engineer’s Office (CEO).
Councilor Em Ang said the structure is expected to make walking to school easier for schoolchildren in Handumanan and Mansilingan.
Work on the bridge started Oct. 3. The project had a P900,000 allocation under the 2016 Annual Investment Program, the CEO said.
Mayor Evelio Leonardia will lead the inauguration along with Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran, city councilors, and Handumanan barangay officials.
As early as July 2015, the Sangguniang Panlungsod sought action from the city government “to ensure the safety of the residents of barangays Mansilingan and Handumanan who cross the river to go to and from Handumanan Elementary School and Handumanan National High School.”
Ang said she had brought the matter to the CEO, but it was only this year that the local government acted.
While a “small project,” the bridge “immensely improves the situation of the children in Mansilingan and Handumanan, making their morning walk to school safer and easier,” said Ang.
Ang claimed to have seen children wading through the water on foot, with taller ones piggybacking shorter ones, before the bridge was built.
“Every day, these children would enter their classrooms with feet and clothes wet,” said the councilor./PN
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