Cebu inaugurates infra projects

CEBU – Governor Gwendolyn Garcia has inaugurated over P70 million worth of infrastructure projects, including the improvement of a causeway in the municipality of Daanbantayan.

 

Gov. Gwen Garcia inaugurates various infra projects in Cebu. (Photos by Donald Moga)

The 121-meter-long and 4-meter-wide improved Tapilon Causeway Section is worth P7.6 million and funded by the Capitol, comes as a relief to port users who have been yearning for such infrastructure in the last 30 years that makes transport to nearby islands and islets convenient and safe. 

Alex Baslan, a resident of Carnaza Island, works as a crew member of a motorboat that ferries passengers and essential commodities such as raw food products, ice blocks, cement, steel bars, fuel, among others, from the mainland to Carnaza. He said they deliver fish and other seafoods then sailing back to the mainland. 

He said it used to be very risky especially on low tide. They had to transfer passengers and goods using a flat-bottom boat to reach what used to be a makeshift port of rocks. The newly-constructed causeway relieves them of all the trouble because they can moor with ease even if it is high tide or low tide. “Dili na gyud intawon mi magkamang-kamang sa kabatuan,” Baslan said. 

Garcia said she makes sure she visits Capitol projects to see for herself the completion and the impact of these projects to the constituents. “Mao nang moanhi gyud ko, motan-aw gyud ko aron masayod ko sa inyong sitwasyon. Karon dili lang ni kay pantalan-pantalan lang, dili murag trak-trak nga tahay-tahay lang. Pantalan o pier na gyud ni,” she said. 

During tye inauguration, Garcia was assisted by Daanbantayan Mayor Sun Shimura, 4th District Provincial Board Kerrie Shimura, Dame Mariquita Yeung; Vice Mayor Ali Abucay, village leaders and councilors, as well as Cebu provincial police chief Erwin Lim. 

Aside from the P7.6-million Tapilon Causeway project, Garcia also inaugurated the 3.9-kilometer Poblacion-Tominjao-Maya Road Section (Phase II) worth P54.8 million. The road is 6.1 meters wide and nine inches thick and will benefit residents in the villages of Daanbantayan: Talisay, Tominjao, Maya, Bagay, and Lanao. 

“Dili nako masulbad ang tanang problema. Bisan pa og moinom ko tanang matang sa vitamins, dili ko mahimong superwoman. Apan akong himuon kutob sa akong mahimo alang sa akong mga pinalanggang Sugbuanon,” Garcia said. 

Another project completed in Tominjao is the reconstruction of a three-barrel reinforced concrete box culvert measuring 12 meters wide and 7.32 meters thick for a bridge in Alinsuob-Bagay areas. The project costs P8.6 million. For this project, Garcia said the provincial government saved over P16 million because initially the works would have cost P25 million, according to its contractor Engr. Romeo Villaceran, now mayor of Madridejos. (EEV)