President Rodrigo Duterte led the inauguration of the 6.405-kilometer Tacloban City Bypass Road Project completed by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) in the Province of Leyte.
The President was joined in the project inauguration by Senator Bong Go, DPWH Secretary Roger Mercado, Presidential Assistant for the Visayas Secretary Michael Lloyd Dino, House Majority Floor Leader, Leyte 1st District Representative Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, and Tacloban City Mayor Alfred Romualdez.
Also present in the ceremonial inauguration are DPWH Senior Undersecretary Rafael Yabut, Assistant Secretary Wilfredo Mallari, Assistant Secretary Rolito Manalo, Regional Director Allan Borromeo, Assistant Regional Director David Adongay, Jr., and other DPWH Region 8 officials and local government chief executives.
“We are proud of the successful completion of the Tacloban City Bypass Road, a significant project under the President Duterte administration’s Build Build Build Program.”
“We are proud of the successful completion of the Tacloban City Bypass Road, a significant project under the President Duterte administration’s Build Build Build Program,” Mercado said.
The Tacloban City Bypass Road is a 6.405-kilometer bypass road along Daang Maharlika connecting Barangays Nula-Tula and Caibaan to improve road network efficiency, enhance the travel experience and facilitate access to Tacloban City.
The constructed bypass road has four lanes and a portion with six lanes of concrete pavement with drainage and slope protection structures.
“With few months left in his term, we added another road built in the lasting legacy of President Duterte for the Filipino people and for the traveling public,” the public works chief said.
The project helped reduce travel time from one and a half hours to just 30 minutes.
The project has helped decongest traffic along Daang Maharlika and improve the accessibility of the road network, increase development potentials, and reduce travel time from one and a half hours to just 30 minutes, benefitting at least a thousand motorists per day.
