PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, April 25 (PNA) — Palawan Governor Jose Alvarez said Friday that Palaweños can expect full blast infrastructure development, specifically in the concreting of 5,570 kilometers of lateral-livelihood roads in the province when all 341 light-to-heavy equipment facilities have been completely turned over to municipalities.
This was assured by Alvarez on the blessing Friday of the equipment pool at the provincial government motorpool in Barangay Irawan here.
“Constructions have started in other towns, and if we’ve completed the distribution of all, they will be non-stop,” said Alvarez to the Philippine News Agency (PNA).
Presently, some of the new equipment are now being used in the construction of hospitals, water system supply projects, school buildings, airports, and road constructions in the municipalities of Aborlan, Narra, Rizal, Brooke’s Point, Bataraza and Taytay.
Towns of Coron, Busuanga, Agutaya and Dumaran are on the road too, to infrastructure development with the transportation of equipment units to the locations just recently.
The whole fleet is composed of 50 excavators, 27 6-way dozers, 10-low ground pressure dozers, 26-boom trucks, nine dropside trucks, nine self-loading trucks, 140 dump trucks, nine graders, and 20 compactors — the largest the provincial government has purchased in recent times, amounting to over over PHP1 billion, “the thriftiest acquisition among local government units (LGUs) in the country,” said Alvarez.
Meanwhile, Alvarez said Palawan is willing to lend the equipment units to the city government to usher infrastructure development in Puerto Princesa.(PNA)