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Department of Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark A. Villar said DPWH is working double time to make Boracay Circumferential Road accessible in time for the island’s soft opening this October.

“With only over a month left for Boracay soft opening, DPWH personnel and equipment are making up for the works that have been slowed down by incessant rain” said Secretary Villar.

As of 12 noon, Friday, September 21, 2018, a total of 11 road sections in Luzon remain impassable to all types of vehicles due to landslide, collapsed road, damaged bridge, and flooding.

The Department of Public Works and Highways Bureau of Maintenance identified nine (9) closed roads in Cordillera Administrative Region and two (2) in Central Luzon namely:

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1) Kennon Road

2) Baguio –Bontoc Road
a. K0362+680-K0362+780, Busa Section
b. K0371+400, Tiging Section, Sabangan

Three (3) sections of Circumferential Road 5 (C-5 Road), two (2) of Epifanio delos Santos Avenue and one (1) section each of A.H. Lacson Avenue and Batasan Road will undergo repair works effective 11 p.m. Friday, September 21, 2018 until 5 a.m. Monday, September 24, 2018.

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), in convergence with the Department of Agriculture (DA), has improved a total of 18 farm-to-market roads (FMRs) in the third and fourth legislative district of Iloilo province.

In a report, DPWH Iloilo Second District Engineer Sanny Boy O. Oropel said through the DPWH-DA convergence program, 18 local roads costing P 118.4 million were paved in the central part of Iloilo, specifically in the municipalities of Calinog, Pototan, Janiuay, Dueñas, Bingawan, Mina, Cabatuan, Maasin, Anilao, San Enrique, Banate, and Dumangas.