The Department of Public Works and Highways said the P7.4-billion Panguil Bay Bridge Project, the longest water-spanning bridge in Northern Mindanao, is set to open by the first half of 2024.
DPWH senior undersecretary Emil Sadain said the project was 63-percent complete as the agency started constructing the bridge top slab on both ends in Tangub, Misamis Occidental and Tubod, Lanao del Norte.
Sadain said that bored piling works on the seabed for the 32 pylon, a structure that provides support for the 3.17-kilometer bridge across Panguil Bay, were completed and a lot of machinery for bridge construction were in full gear working forward to the main bridge pylons 1 and 2.
“By working round-the-clock and further improve the formulated measures to catch up the delays brought by previous suspension of activities due to COVID-19 pandemic from March 16 to July 2020, we will be able to finish the project toward the goal of having first traffic cross the bridge by first half of 2024,” Sadain said.