Bankerohan Bridge is open!
Finally, after a year and a couple of months, the new Bankerohan Bridge is open to serve the riding public. Just in time for school opening!
I’m going to try and post some photos of the new bridge. It’s a completely new structure, which was built in a span of 3 or 4 months, if I’m not mistaken.
The bridge was inaugurated in simple rites early this morning, and now, the flow of traffic feels so… heavenly! No more bottlenecks in the Bankerohan and Matina ramps — for now.
I just hope there will be no more unexpected lapses, to put it mildly. I don’t want to scare anyone, but I remember when Bankerohan II was built back in the 90s. After only a short while, the ramp at the Bankerohan side buckled under the weight of traffic. Nobody was hurt, but it was reported that the completion of the bridge might have been rushed…
Well, this new bridge certainly wasn’t rushed. But it did open just in time before the crazy June traffic descended on everyone.
Kudos to the Department of Public Works & Highways - Region 11 for this accomplishment!
June 10th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Cheers! Drinks all around. I think we should also thank Mayor Duterte for “threatening” DPWH.
*hik*
June 12th, 2008 at 3:15 am
That’s what he did? LOL. I didn’t know. I thought they just wanted to catch up on the back-to-school hype. Oh well. I hope the bridge is ‘perfectly’ safe for atleast a decade or more.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Alright, let me clear this up. He “threatened” to take over the project because DPWH kept delaying project initiation.