The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is accelerating the upgrading of the damaged Butuan-Cagayan-Iligan national road network linking the provinces of Agusan del Norte, Lanao del Norte and Misamis Oriental.
In a statement, DPWH Region 10 Director Norma Gironella said the ongoing works at the Butuan-Cagayan-Iligan Road (BCIR) Gitagum Section, costing P107.3 million, focuses on the upgrading of the deteriorated Portland Cement Concrete Pavement (PCCP) about 8.212 kilometers long and 10 centimeters thick identified by the Pavement Management System/Highway Development and Management-4 (HDM-4).
Gironella said pavement markings are also included in the specification of works.
Gironella said DPWH Secretary Rogelio Singson has directed the contractor, the Vicente Lao Construction, to fast track the project because it is part of DPWH's program to realize President Benigno S. Aquino III's goal of sustained economic growth and poverty reduction by upgrading, improving and rehabilitating the Philippine road network and make these national roads 100 percent paved by 2016.
"We are optimistic that upon completion of this road project, which is part of the main thoroughfare of Northern Mindanao, a safer, faster and more comfortable travel will be felt by motorists, commuters and the travelling public from the east going to the west of Mindanao and vice versa," Gironella said in a statement.
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