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BY JOHNNY NOVERA
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Monday, June 26, 2017
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WE ARE HAPPY happy with the road-widening programs in Iloilo especially to the Iloilo Airport – a six-lane highway with a center-island that allows only U-turns at major intersections.
The 16 kilometers or so distance to the airport used to be negotiated in 30 minutes or even less, but now we cannot understand why the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has started to introduce so soon “repairs” on this busy airport highway even if it was just finished.
There are ongoing re-pavings at Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr. Avenue starting at the bridge crossing to the University of the Philippines and all the way northward to the junction of the airport road in the vicinity of the junction to Sta. Barbara Golf & Country Club that also connects at right to Santa Barbara town proper.
Can DPWH please explain why the roads are being bulldozed again and re-paved even when it was just finished?
Meantime, as we mentioned before, there are city roads that have not been repaired for decades like Mejorada Street behind the church in Mandurriao that is a regular route for passenger jeepneys to NHA Village. In contrast, Oñate Street beside the Mandurriao public market going southward to Barangay Pakiad is being plowed again by bulldozer and re-paved even if the road was just finished a few months ago.
Meanwhile, the electric posts after the road widening remain as traffic obstructions on Oñate, Mapa and Guzman streets in Mandurriao district. When will DPWH attend to these accident hazards to passing vehicles?
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We continue with our research for our “Writing History in our Streets” project. We have obtained data from the National Historical Institute of the standard design of a marker pedestal for this purpose, complete with bill of materials and estimated cost, which we are applying to our initial projects on two streets in Mandurriao so they can be models for other markers to follow.
Meantime, we are sharing with you data on another street in Molo district which we plan to include in the project. We are referring to Angel Magahum Sr. Street.
Covered by Regulation City Ordinance No. 00-113 passed by the Sangguniang Panlungsod of the City of Iloilo on Sept. 6, 2000, the new Angel Magahum Sr. Street was taken from Lopez-Jaena Street.
It runs from the junction of Locsin-M. H. del Pilar streets, Molo, Iloilo City to the first gate of Baluarte Elementary School, Iloilo City.
Angel Magahum Sr. was born in Molo, Iloilo City on Oct. 1, 1867. He was known as the “Colossus of Visayan Literature.”
He was primarily a composer and a musician of zarzuela music, but he wrote “Benjamin” which he finished in 1894. Its first edition, however, came out in 1907 and was the first Filipino novel in the Hiligaynon language.
He was also the first editor of Makinaugalingon, the newspaper founded by Rosendo Mejica of Molo.
Magahum served in the revolution against Spain and in the Philippine-American war. (For comments or re-actions, please e-mail to jnoveracompany@yahoo.com)/PN
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