BAGUIO CITY — The country’s summer capital will be having its first multi-million underpass similar to that on the famous Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA) to help ease the worsening traffic congestion along the junction of Bokawkan and Naguilian Roads at the heart of the city’s central business district.
The proposal to build an underpass that at the junction of the aforesaid roads came after experts from the central office of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) assessed the earlier plan to put up a third flyover in the said area which will help ease the daily nightmare of motorists who are always being caught in heavy traffic.
Rep. Bernardo M. Vergara explained the agency’s technical people are quite apprehensive to put up a flyover at the junction of Naguilian and Bokawkan roads because it will greatly affect the scenic beauty of the area as well as it will entail serious road-right-of-way problems that could early the realization of the noble infrastructure project.
Vergara said the planned underpasses, which will have a length of between 500 and 1,000 meters, will be constructed on the said roadlines and subjected to the required consultations with the affected sectors.
These consultations are aimed at giving stakeholders the opportunity to raise issues and concerns against the project so that they may be satisfactorily addressed by the concerned agency prior to its implementation.
The congressman likened the expected opposition to the underpass to that which delayed the construction of the flyover at the Baguio General Hospital and Medical Center (BGHMC).
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