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News Top Stories 7 more months needed to finish Southern Leyte bridge
| 7 more months needed to finish Southern Leyte bridge |
| Wednesday, 11 June 2008 18:00 | ||||||
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Nobuo Kobayashi, Japanese consultant of the project, said they would have to redesign the abutment of the Agas-agas Bridge away from the fault line. An abutment is the mass of stone or solid work at the end of a bridge. "We want an extension of at least seven months to study the area and the redesigning of the abutment," Kobayashi told Southern Leyte Representative Roger Mercado when he inspected the project last Friday. Kobayashi said the bridge would be the first-ever in the country that would be supported by 75-meter piers with heights equivalent to a 25-story building. The 1.15-kilometer bridge is being constructed by Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Construction under the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)-funded Arterial Road Link Development Project (phase VI) of the Philippine-Japan Friendship Highway Rehabilitation Project Phase III. The bridge would be built over a gorge on the Agas-agas mountain, a landslide prone area. Kobayashi said the construction of a redesigned abutment would require P200 million additional funding on top of the original P869-million project cost. As of May 25, the project, which started in November 2006, had a slippage of negative 8.63 percent and was 50 percent completed. The project was scheduled for completion by the end of 2009. The other projects under the Visayas section of the road link project include the P1.4-billion 52-kilometer road from Calbayog to Gatanguit and the P1.5- billion rehabilitation of the 59-kilometer Gatanguit to Calbiga road, both located in Western Samar. The three projects would become major segments of the Maharlika Highway from Luzon to Mindanao.
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