The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is on track for the 2021 opening of Estrella-Pantaleon Bridge connecting Estrella Street in Makati City and Barangka Drive in Mandaluyong City.
Secretary Mark Villar said the expansion of the Estrella-Pantaleon Bridge, also known as the Rockwell Bridge, into a two-way four-lane bridge is expected to greatly improve vehicular movement between the two highly urbanized cities of Metro Manila.
“Construction of the new Estrella-Pantaleon Bridge is now in its 78.5 percent completion.”
“Construction of the new Estrella-Pantaleon Bridge is now in its 78.5 percent completion and once fully completed will be able to accommodate around 50,000 vehicles per day,” Villar stressed.
The Estrella-Pantaleon Bridge Project is part of the Metro Manila Logistics Improvement Program to ease heavy traffic along EDSA.
According to DPWH Undersecretary for Unified Project Management Office (UPMO) Operations Emil Sadain, the Estrella-Pantaleon Bridge Project involves the replacement of an old existing steel truss bridge with a prestressed concrete rigid frame bridge (with V-shape piers) having a 4-lane concrete deck slab of 506.46 lineal meters.
“The project is one of the two grant bridges from the People’s Republic China.”
“The project is one of the two grant bridges from the People’s Republic China. The other bridge is known as the Binondo-Intramuros Bridge Project connecting the historic Walled City of Intramuros and Manila’s commerce and trade district of Binondo,” Sadain explained.
The construction of a new Estrella-Pantaleon Bridge as well as the Binondo-Intramuros Bridge is being implemented by the DPWH Unified Project Management Office – Roads Management Cluster 1 under the leadership of Project Director Virgilio Castillo.