The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) recently improved a total of six (6) kilometers of road along various sections of two (2) major thoroughfares in the Province of Nueva Ecija.
DPWH Regional Office 3 Director Roseller A. Tolentino identified the Sta. Rosa-Tarlac Road and Nueva Ecija-Aurora Road as the national roads which recently received the much-needed preventive maintenance and asphalting.
Both the DPWH Nueva Ecija 1st and 2nd District Engineering Office (DEO) successfully conducted asphalt overlay activities on 1.85-lane-kilometers and 2.2-lane-kilometers of the Sta. Rosa-Tarlac Road covering in the towns of Zaragoza and Sta. Rosa, respectively.
Meanwhile, 1.94 lane-kilometers of the Nueva Ecija-Aurora Road section in Cabanatuan City has also been upgraded by DPWH Nueva Ecija 2nd DEO.
With better carriageways, residents and motorists find a more convenient and safer travel while traversing the road sections.
Other than constructing new roads all over the country, DPWH also puts great importance and priority in the continuous improvement and maintenance of existing national road network to preserve its structural integrity and prolong service life.
The completed asset preservation and preventive maintenance projects had a total cost of P27.2 million funded under the General Appropriations Act (GAA) of 2022.