The
feasibility for the creation of the bridge that will connect three major
islands in Western Visayas will be finished before 2020, this according to the Department
of Public Works and Highways (DPWH).
“The feasibility study for the Panay-Guimaras-Negros (bridge)
is expected to be completed this year,” Anna Mae Lamentillo, chairperson of the
Build, Build, Build Inter-agency Committee, said in a press briefing in
Malacañang.
Lamentillo said the DPWH is being “very careful” in relation
to the design and construction of the project given its magnitude.
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“May requirement po kasi (there’s a requirement). For an
inter-island bridge for example, may required na pre-feasibility study,
feasibility study and detailed engineering design,” she added.
Lamentillo assured that the bridge has been included as one
of the priority projects under the Build, Build, Build program of the
administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.
The feasibility study of the proposed Panay-Guimaras-Negros
Island Bridges Project
As per
DPWH, the project profile states that, two bridges are the Panay-Guimaras
Bridge, which will start in Leganes, Iloilo and will end in Buenavista,
Guimaras, and the Guimaras-Negros Island Bridge, which will start and end in
San Lorenzo, Guimaras and Pulupandan, Negros Occidental, respectively.
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