CDC ground breaks Clark-AC-Mabalacat road project

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Source:http://www.sunstar.com.ph/pampanga/local-news/2016/01/14/cdc-ground-breaks-clark-ac-mabalacat-road-project-451782
Friday, January 15, 2016

(CDC CommDep)

CLARK FREEPORT – A close to P173-million six-kilometer vital road project that would ease traffic flow in the cities of Angeles and Mabalacat broke ground yesterday.

Clark Development Corporation (CDC) president Arthur P. Tugade led the groundbreaking ceremonies of the Clark-Mabalacat-Angeles Road Project signaling the construction of an interconnecting route from Mabalacat gate to Balibago in Angeles City along the east perimeter fence of this Freeport.

Tugade said the project is being funded by CDC as part of the agency’s parallel development programs to spur progress in local government units contiguous to Clark.

The project consists of two packages: Package I, to be undertaken by the construction firm of BS Ponio and Company, Inc. The project features include 940-meter wide with two lane road, shoulder, street lights and 60 meters two lane steel bridge.

Constructing the second package is Haidee Construction and Development Corporation. The project features include 4,500-meter with two lane road, shoulder, street lights, 427.47 meters four lane road with sidewalk, street lights, and two traffic lights.

The total length of the project is 5,927.47 linear meters or about six kilometers. The total project cost is P172.96 million.

CDC Vice President for Engineering Services Group Alveen Tabag said the target completion of the Clark-Mabalacat-Angeles Road is on June 2016.

It can be recalled that Mabalacat City Mayor Marino Morales expressed gratitude to CDC officials for giving this project a priority.

“Once na magawa yun, there will be another access or alternative to and from Clark and then onto Subic, Manila and other areas. Lalong magiging progresibo ang northern part ng Mabalacat,” Morales said.

For his part, Angeles City Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan said the project is a dream come true.

"Matagal na po nating panaginip ito (road project), 1995 pa. Clark-Mabalacat-Angeles Road is now a reality," Pamintuan said.

In attendance during the event were Justice Jose A.R. Melo, Representative Joseller “Yeng” Guiao of the First Congressional District of Pampanga, Morales, Pamintuan, Angeles City Vice-Mayor Vicky Vega-Cabigting, Bamban Mayor Jose T. Feliciano, Clark Investors and Locators Association, local government and other CDC officials.