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(Eagle News) — Matapos isailalim sa pagkukumpuni sa loob ng limang buwan, bukas na muli sa mga motorista ang Otis Bridge sa Maynila. Pinangunahan ng Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) ang pagpapasinaya sa bagong gawang tulay. Ang tulay ay isinara noong Hunyo matapos makitaan ng mga crack. Umabot sa P33 million ang ginastos para sa pagsasaayos ng tulay. Ito rin ang unang pagkakataon na nakumpuni ito mula nang itayo ang tulay noong 1986. […]
(Eagle News) — Binuksan na ng Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) ang dalawang alternatibong ruta para sa mga motorista na magtutungo sa Benguet at Baguio City. Pinasinayaan ng DPWH ang Aringay-Tubao Alternate Road at Anduyan Bridge sa La Union. Sa labing-apat na kilometrong Aringay-Tubao na ruta ay mababawasan ang oras ng biyahe mula La Union patungong Benguet mula dalawang oras hanggang tatlumpu’t limang minuto. Mababawasan din ng isang oras ang biyahe mula La […]
(Eagle News) — Senator Panfilo Lacson on Wednesday, Nov. 14, criticized the Department of Public Works and Highways for a road project in the Cordillera Administrative Region that he said lacked planning. In a statement, Lacson said the DPWH did not consult the Mines and Geosciences Bureau prior to the construction of the Baguio-La Trinidad-Itogon-Sablan-Tuba-Tublay (BLISTT) Circumferential Road. He said the MGB could have warned that parts of the roads under BLISTT are in landslide-prone areas. […]
(Eagle News) — Seventeen bodies were recovered as of Nov. 5 from the deadly landslide in Natonin, Mountain Province where the Department of Public Works and Highways second district engineering office had been obliterated by mud and rubble brought about by last week’s typhoon Rosita. This was according to the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office of Mountain Province on Tuesday morning, Nov. 6. Eleven people are still missing, and believe to have […]
(Eagle News)—President Rodrigo Duterte urged his officials to provide water and food to those areas severely affected by typhoon Rosita (international name Yutu) as he directed the “return to normalcy as soon as possible” of the affected areas. Duterte surveyed the areas damaged by the typhoon’s onslaught, and conducted an aerial surveillance along with his officials. In a situation briefing in Isabela on Thursday, Nov. 1, the President noted the “extensive” damage in Northern […]
(Eagle News) — A total of 14 survivors were rescued from the landslide site of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) building at Sitio Sakrang, Bgy. Banawel,, Natonin, Mt. Province, according to the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) Cordillera. As of 2 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 31, five people were recovered dead, while nine were still missing in the landslide that buried three buildings of the DPWH second engineering district office in Natonin town, […]
(Eagle News) — Rescue operations are now ongoing at the site of a landslide in Natonin, Mountain Province where the Department of Public Works and Highways DPWH second district engineering office building was buried under mud and rocks after typhoon Rosita’s onslaught on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, according to DPWH secretary Mark Villar. “Rescue operations now on going at Brgy Banawel, Natonin. Let’s pray for those affected by the landslide,” said DPWH Secretary […]
(Eagle News) – Thirty-one people, including 20 contractors of the Department of Public Works and Highways, were trapped and feared dead in a landslide that buried in mud and rubble the DPWH second district engineering office in Natonin, Mt. Province on Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 30. The landslide happened between 4 pm and 5 p.m., as rains and winds from typhoon Rosita (Yutu) still continued to be felt as it moved westward out of the […]
Ni Moira Encina Eagle News Service (QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Itutuloy ng DPWH ang pagkukumpuni ng ilang kalsada sa Quezon City at Maynila ngayong weekend. Sa Quezon City, isasailalim sa road repair ang dalawang sections sa EDSA at isang bahagi ng Batasan Road. Partikular na rito ang southbound direction ng EDSA mula sa harap ng Francesca Tower hanggang pagkatapos ng Scout Borromeo, 3rd lane mula sa Center Island; at ang northbound direction mula […]
(Eagle News) — Bataan is still experiencing heavy rains brought by the enhanced southwest monsoon or habagat, which has damaged many roads and bridges in the province, according to the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH). DPWH 2nd District Engr. Ulysses Llado said that one of the bridges that were damaged was the Roman Superhighway or the Bataan Provincial Expressway. Llado said that this was the first time that the rains have lasted for […]
(Eagle News)—Senator Sherwin Gatchalian has filed a bill seeking to remove restrictions preventing foreign contractors from bidding for locally-funded government public works projects. Under Commonwealth Act No .541, only firms with 75% Filipino ownership or more are allowed to bid. In a statement, Gatchalian said that in filing Senate Bill No. 1907 that seeks to amend the 78-year-old Commonwealth Act, he seeks to “provide a more level playing field and extend equal opportunities to eligible and qualified […]
(Eagle News) — Naglabas ngayong araw, Hulyo 19, ng travel advisory ang Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) kaugnay ng impassable areas sa mga pangunahing lansangan sa buong Region 1 o Ilocos Region. Batay sa inilabas na travel advisory ng DPWH Region 1, passable lahat ng major thoroughfares maliban Alaminos-Bolinao Road na hindi madaanan ng kahit anong sasakyan dahil nasira ang paanan ng detour ng Gareta Bridge. Pinapayuhan ang mga motorista na dumaan sa […]
