KALIBO, Aklan – The Kalibo Bridge III, dubbed the longest bridge in Western Visayas, was opened to the public on Thursday.
Mark Villar, secretary of the Department of Public Works and Highways, led the inauguration of the bridge located on the boundaries of Barangay Tigayon, Kalibo and Barangay Mina, Lezo, Aklan.
“The Kalibo Bridge, which has a budget of P500 million, is part of the ongoing 16-kilometer Aklan circumferential road project,” Villar said, adding the bridge spans around 770 meter.
He said the circumferential road which traverses the adjacent towns of Kalibo, Numancia, Lezo, and Makato, when completed, would cut down travel time from this capital town to Boracay Island in Malay, Aklan from one hour and a half to 45 minutes.
Meanwhile, Governor Florencio Miraflores said the project started in 2013 when they were planning for ways to cut the travel time of tourists bound to the world-famous Boracay Island.
“We were looking then of ways of how we could cut travel time to tourists bound to Boracay,” added Miraflores./PN
