Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark A. Villar on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 led the inauguration ceremony of the newly-completed Mandaluyong City Jail in Barangay Plainview.
“We are glad to turn-over this correctional facility that can accommodate up to 5,000 inmates, helping them have better living conditions especially during pandemic wherein social distancing is of utmost importance,” said Secretary Villar.
Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark A. Villar on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 led the inauguration ceremony of the newly-completed Mandaluyong City Jail in Barangay Plainview.
“We are glad to turn-over this correctional facility that can accommodate up to 5,000 inmates, helping them have better living conditions especially during pandemic wherein social distancing is of utmost importance,” said Secretary Villar.
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), in the last five (5) years under the leadership of Secretary Mark A. Villar, has implemented almost a threefold more projects than any administration in the last five decades.
President Rodrigo Roa Duterte in his last State of the Nation Address on Monday, July 26, 2021, lauded the DPWH for its accomplishment from 2016 to 2020.
Two (2) national road sections in the Cordillera Administrative Region, and one (1) each in Region 3 and 4-B are still inaccessible to all types of vehicles due to collapsed soil, bridge approach, and washed-out box culvert.
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has so far reopened 21 national road sections that were temporarily closed due to landslide, damage, and flooding while teams are still mobilized to restore access along five (5) remaining impassable roads in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Region 3 and 4-B.
Seven (7) national road sections are still closed to traffic while three (3) are inaccessible to light vehicles per 12:00 noon Monday, July 26, 2021 situational report from the Department of Public Works and Highways-Bureau of Maintenance (DPWH-BOM).
Motorists are advised that five (5) national road sections remain impassable and three (3) have limited access as of 6:00 am Monday, July 26, 2021 due to Southwest Monsoon.
Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark A. Villar said that most flooded roads in NCR have been cleared but three (3) national road sections in Cordillera Administrative Region, and one (1) each in Region III and Region IV-B are still closed to all types of vehicles.
As of 6:00 pm Sunday, July 25, 2021, four (4) national road sections are still closed to vehicular traffic due to damage and soil/rock slide while 13 roads are still not passable to light vehicles due to flooding brought by inclement weather.
Some 51 equipment and 338 maintenance personnel of the Department of Public Works and Highways have been deployed to flooded and landslide areas for declogging works and clearing operations.
As of 12 noon Sunday, July 25, 2021, thirteen (13) road sections are closed to traffic due to flooding, soil collapsed at bridge approach, soil and rock collapse, major slide, collapsed solid wheelguard, and washed-out box culvert.
The construction of a cut-off channel by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has mitigated the perennial challenge of flooding experienced during heavy rainfall by the people of Candaba, Pampanga.
Secretary Mark A. Villar citing a report from Undersecretary Emil K. Sadain, in-charge of the DPWH Unified Project Management Office (UPMO) Operations, said that the Candaba Cut-Off Channel with slope protection works on both banks will lessen the severity of flooding brought by overflow or swelling of Pampanga River.