IN PHOTOS: DOTr Secretary Arthur Tugade, DPWH Secretary Mark Villar, and Bacoor City Mayor Lani Mercado-Revilla led the DOTr-DPWH-Bacoor LGU coordination meeting today, 24 September 2019, to discuss how to further expedite the implementation of various infrastructure projects in the city.
Today’s meeting was a follow-up to an earlier coordination meeting held by the DOTr with the local government unit (LGU) of Bacoor in Cavite.
Projects discussed were the DOTr and LRTA’s LRT-1 Cavite Extension Project, and ongoing and proposed DPWH projects that included the Alabang-Zapote Road Extension Project, the Zapote River Maintenance Road Project, the Bacoor Diversion Road Project, and improvements to the Aguinaldo Highway and Alabang-Zapote Road interchange. DPWH’s flood control projects in Cavite were also covered.
For his part, Secretary Tugade affirmed to the Bacoor LGU that project development for the additional LRT-1 Talaba Station has started, with discussions with the Light Rail Manila Corporation (LRMC) and eventual signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the DOTr and the LGU of Bacoor. Progress on the development of an additional Intermodal Terminal for the Bacoor Station, and of a connecting road between Aguinaldo Highway and Bacoor Boulevard, was also discussed.
It was also agreed to align the designs and alignment of the Alabang-Zapote Road Extension Project along the LRT-1 Cavite Extension’s Zapote Intermodal Terminal and Zapote Depot, to ensure commuters’ convenience in accessing the Zapote Station from both the Alabang-Zapote Road and the C-5 Extension Road. The alignment was also discussed to minimize as much as possible the displacement of persons and families.
Officials also in attendance were Usec. for Railways Timothy John Batan, Usec. for Road Transport and Infrastructure Mark de Leon, PNR General Manager Junn Magno, Northrail Chairman Eddie Quintos, DPWH Asec. Eduardo Ramos, DPWH Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Director Alex Bote, LTO Region 4-A Assistant Regional Director Francisco Ranches Jr., Light Rail Transit Authority (LRTA) Principal Engineers Manuel De las Alas and Domingo Noche, and other officials and representatives from the DPWH and the LGU of Bacoor.
