interchange will serve as the southern receptacle for the traffic load going south of Manila. It completes the series of traffic road schemes that make up Greater Manila's circum- ferential road network.
The traffic siphoned to these inter- changes will help ease the city's acute traffic problem, and the multi-lane highway going south from this junc- tion will help spread industrialisation to southern Manila.
Diamond Complex
The Dalton-Santa Fe section in Cagayan Valley road designed to be constructed on a four to two-lane wide super-highway will be incor- porated into the Pan-Philippine high- way plan and will run down to the Manila north road complex in Bula- can which is called the Malinta- Novaliches road complex, where an interchange is also to be constructed.
A diamond-type complex with a 58-meter two-way two-lane overpass and a four-lane divided underpass will be constructed in the Malinta-Novali- ches interchange that will pour traffic into the clover-leaf interchange at the crossing of the Manila north road and the Novaliches road in Quezon City.
These constructions are all in the island of Luzon, the biggest and ma- jor island of the archepilago compris- ing almost 66 per cent of the entire Pan-Philippine highway project.
On the way southwards, from the point nearest the northern tip of
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Samar island, ferry services will be installed on the 22-kilometer over- water link from Sorsogon Province, the southernmost province in Luzon island.
two Alternating services, ferry boats will be installed at one of each of these two points with capacity of eight trucks, 15 cars and passenger capacity of 200 people.
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In the western part of Samar island where a third class road exists, widening of the main roads, cutting of diversion routes on circuitous por- tions and the replacement of tempor- ary bridges with permanent ones will be carried out. Road construction in Samar will be hastened so as to be able to meet the construction work on the 835-meter San Juanico steel and concrete bridge that will link the islands of Samar and Leyte.
The San Juanico bridge linking the two provinces, will be a steel struc- ture, spanning the strait, a distance of 835 lineal meters. Samar is the third largest province in the country and Leyte is the fifth largest island in the archepilago. With good road access, rapid development should readily follow.
Construction in Leyte island pro- ceeds from Tacloban City south- wards to the town of Abuyog, on to Baybay in the western part of the island, and down again to Sogod. New roads in Samar and Leyte will entail a total length of 408 kilometers. Third class roads will be concreted in accordance with the Pan-Philippine highway specifications and a portion
in the Abuyog-Sogod area will have to be opened up along mountainous and forestal areas to shorten the route.
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At the Sogod point, a bridge will be constructed to Panaon island, the last major crossing to be installed in the system. From this point, at Panaon island, a ferry ser- vice will link the 60 kilometer over- water gap to Surigao province at its northern tip. Surigao province is the northernmost province of Mindanao island.
Some 405 kilometers of roads from Surigao, Butuan City and Davao will have to be widened, concreted and partly rerouted.
24 Projects
All told, at the Philippine Bureau of Public Highways, 24 projects, re- presenting bridges, exchanges and stretches of new road are at present being tendered for. Separate closing dates for submission of bids for the projects have been planned, the latest being March 4, 1966.
Thirteen projects will be imple- mented on a self-financing basis as authorized under the Private Financ- ing Law (Republic Act No. 3741). Under this act, private constructors of public works can recover the pro- ject costs from a scheduled set of tolls sanctioned by the government.
The Pan-Philippine Highway will play a vital role in the economic de- velopment of the country.
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