Reopening of P680-M flyover before Christmas uncertain

• Published date: 22 November 2022
• Publication title: Philippines News agency

There is no assurance that the PHP680 million flyover project at the junction of Benigno S. Aquino Jr. Avenue and President Corazon C. Aquino Avenue will reopen before Christmas amid the previous pronouncement of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to try to have it open to traffic by mid-December.

DPWH consultants have yet to give their recommendation on the needed structural repair of the flyover project that connects Iloilo City to the municipality of Pavia, said Councilor Johnny Y. Young, chair of the committee on engineering, construction, and public works of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (City Council) that conducted an investigation-in-aid of legislation on the project on October 27.

He said "no timeline was given as to when these solutions will arrive.'

The flyover was fully opened to the public on September 5 but was closed to traffic 13 days later due to the vertical displacement by 3 mm. of its three piers while there were also cracks and flooding observed in the spans of the flyover, according to Young's report during the regular...