{"id":19488,"date":"2017-07-31T08:58:19","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T00:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=19488"},"modified":"2017-07-31T18:21:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T10:21:36","slug":"p77b-bridge-airport-and-dam-will-soon-be-built-by-duterte-government-in-western-visayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/07\/31\/p77b-bridge-airport-and-dam-will-soon-be-built-by-duterte-government-in-western-visayas\/","title":{"rendered":"P77B bridge, airport, and dam will soon be built by Duterte government in Western Visayas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The islands of Panay, Negros and Guimaras will soon be connected, as the three are included in the infrastructure projects that will be implemented under Duterte&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p>The Php 27.15-billion bridge project will effectively link the islands, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) has announced. It is one of the government&#8217;s project in the near future according to Ro-ann Bacal, NEDA Western Visayas director, said that the regional project will cost a total of Php 77 billion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19489\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/region-6-western-visayas-1-638.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/region-6-western-visayas-1-638.jpg 638w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/region-6-western-visayas-1-638-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/region-6-western-visayas-1-638-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Image grabbed from slideshare.net<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other projects will include the improvement of the Iloilo International airport with a total of Php 30.4-billion and the Panay River Basin Integrated Development Project a mega dam in Capiz project priced at Php 19.3-billion.<\/p>\n<p>Countries like Japan and China have expressed interest in helping to fund the said projects through\u00a0the Official Development Assistance. It is also believed that there will be a significant boost with the countries economics as when the three islands are connected.<\/p>\n<p>Major changes and improvements will happen to the three projects. For the Panay River Basin Integrated Development Project in Capiz province, the multi purpose mega-dam will, we can expect for it to help lessen the perennial flooding and add power to the cities nearby.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>Source:<a href=\"http:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/918946\/p77b-bridge-airport-dam-to-be-built-by-duterte-govt-in-w-visayas\"> Inquirer.net<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pia.gov.ph\/news\/articles\/911491371810\" target=\"_blank\">Philippine Information Agency<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major changes and improvements will happen to the three projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2580],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","category-other-news-source"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/07\/Western_Visayas-Region_VI-_philippine_piyesta-e1501496479219.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19523,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19488\/revisions\/19523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}