Public Works and Highways Secretary Manual Bonoan was not recommending reopening the newly built flyover in Iloilo City to ensure public safety. | JoeyMarzanINQ /PDI
Bonoan said they were assessing what needed to be done to rehabilitate the flyover that was intended to cut travel time to the Iloilo International Airport in Cabatuan town by 20 minutes.
“Probing tests are needed underneath [the flyover] because we’ve seen displacements where other sections have been sinking, so in that case, there seems to be something wrong, that is why we are trying to find out the exact cause of the sinking,” he added. Meantime, he said he would not recommend the reopening of the flyover “because we conducted a controlled traffic loading test to see the behavior of the structure, [and] initially, we are still sensing [displacements] so I would not immediately recommend anything to open to the general public.”
“What I’m asking for from the DPWH is that they come up with a definite stand [as to] what should be done with the flyover. What is very important for us is that we be able to do the two underneath and finish that as soon as possible. People will be inconvenienced if those disappear as well,” Treñas said during the opening of the Museum of Philippine Maritime History in Iloilo City on Friday.
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