DPWH appeals for patience with road rehab

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BY MAE SINGUAY
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February 10, 2018
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BACOLOD City – The Public Works department appealed for understanding and patience among locals as the City District Engineering Office rehabilitate roads in the metro.

District Engineer Abraham Villareal assured the public that any project they undertake stems from thorough study and evaluation.

“We are doing our best to attain better roads for the public’s riding comfort,” he said.

Excavations on Circumferential Road near Burgos Street in Barangay Villamonte have recently drawn scorn from several netizens saying they were inconvenienced.

The rehabilitation project started on Monday. Villareal said their target completion is “after a month and a half.”

Only two of the road’s four lanes are currently passable to vehicular traffic.

Some critics of the project said the Department of Public Works and Highways kept “plowing” fairly passable roads while others lamented what they believe is a waste of government resources.

Still others believe there are more roads in Bacolod in dire need of the Public Works department’s attention.

This project, according to Villareal, is the “rehabilitation, reconstruction and improvement of road section all the way to Homesite.”

What the department is currently working on is the “reblocking” that follows the installation of a drainage system, he said.

The 400-meter road is “defective,” the district engineer said.

Based on their evaluation – which was approved by the department’s central office – the road is experiencing “severe scaling.” Simply put, it is not in good condition, said Villareal.

Regular maintenance measures would not do any good and would even be “too costly,” he pointed out.

Villareal stressed that the local offices of the Public Works department cannot just excavate roads without any study or evaluation./PN
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