LIGAO CITY, Aug. 26 - Two vital bridges were opened on Friday to traffic, linking this city to other towns and villages in the province, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) 3rd engineering district said here Wednesday.
The newly constructed bridges are the Basag and Tobgon bridges in the villages of Basag and Batang in this city.
Albay 3rd District Representative Rino G. Lim inaugurated the Basag Bridge on Friday followed by another inaugural ceremony on September 4 for the Tobgon bridge.
DPWH District Engineer Efren Manalo said some P38.4 million from the President's Bicol Calamity Assistance for Relief and Emergency (B-CARE) funds were spent to reconstruct the two bridges destroyed by Super typhoon Reming in 2006.
Manalo said the total collapse of the two vital bridges isolated several villages and towns bringing difficulties in transporting farm products to this city.
He said the completion of the Batang and Tobgon bridges would hasten the transportation of farm products to the market therefore improving the livelihood of farmers in the rural villages of this city.
Basag bridge in barangay Basag is a 30.60 linear meter concrete bridge with a 159 linear meter approaches with project cost of P23.7 million sourced by Rep. Lim from B-CARE funds.
The Tobgon bridge in barangay Batang is a 60 linear meter Steel Truss Type with a 75 linear meter Span Reinforce Concrete Girder costing P14.7 million, an assisted project from the United Kingdom with funding counterpart from the government of the Philippines (GOP).
The two bridges were constructed by the NFH construction.
Manalo said the construction of the two bridges brings to completion various rehabilitation of infrastructure facilities from roads, bridges and other physical structures destroyed by two super typhoons that hit the province in 2006. (PNA)