{"id":40937,"date":"2019-03-08T09:24:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T01:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=40937"},"modified":"2019-03-08T15:29:33","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T07:29:33","slug":"panguil-bay-bridge-longest-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2019\/03\/08\/panguil-bay-bridge-longest-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Panguil Bay Bridge Starts Construction, Soon to Be Longest Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Construction\u00a0has officially started for the Panguil Bay Bridge<\/strong> which will link Tangub City, Misamis Occidental to Tubod, Lanao del Norte in Northern Mindanao<\/strong>. The project is said to finish by 2021 and will be the longest bridge in the country.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dpwhph\/videos\/369574630512854\/<\/p>\n

Panguil Bay Bridge (PBB)<\/h4>\n

Funded under the Korean Economic Development Cooperation Agreement, PBB is being built under Kyong-Ho Engineering and Architect Co. Ltd. who won the bidding under the Philippine Government procurement program.<\/p>\n

\"\"Currently, locals would have to use ferries to cross the bay which will take over an hour\/IMAGE DPWH<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The construction is said to have an estimated cost of Php 4.859 billion. Php 4.272 billion is to be funded by the Export-Import Bank of Korea-Economic Development Cooperation Fund, while the remaining Php 587 million will be funded by the Philippine National Budget.<\/p>\n

Both Misamis Occidental and Lanao del Norte are part of Northern Mindanao. The former is known for the Caluya which has a replica of the Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Another tourist destination is the Piduan Falls in Don Victoriano Chiongbian.<\/p>\n

Lanao del Norte, on the other side of the Panguil Bay is popular for their many waterfalls like the Kapatagan Falls, Dodiongan Falls, and the world famous Maria Cristina Falls.<\/p>\n

Also read: Maria Cristina Falls in Lanao del Norte, Mindanao<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Currently, the longest bridge in the Philippines is the\u00a02.16 km\u00a0San Juanico Bridge<\/strong>\u00a0from Samar to Leyte in Eastern Visayas, constructed in 1969 using Japanese Official Development Assistance (ODA) loans and is part of the Pan-Philippine Highway.<\/p>\n

\"\"The San Juanico Bridge is a project that took 4 years to construct\/IMAGE Wikipedia commons<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Mark Villar stated that the two-lane 3.7 km<\/strong>\u00a0extradosed-type bridge will shorten the travel time. From the current one hour and a half, the travel time\u00a0between the two provinces will soon only take seven minutes.<\/p>\n

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Sources: Misamis Occidental Website<\/a>, DPWH<\/a>, Philippine News Agency<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Panguil Bay Bridge (PBB) will be a two-lane 3.7 km extradosed-type bridge what will soon shorten the travel from the two provinces to seven minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[694,8404,8406,8405],"class_list":["post-40937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-build-build-build","tag-lanao-del-norte","tag-misamic-occidental","tag-panguil-bay-bridge"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/panguil-bay-e1552030156657.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40937","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=40937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40943,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40937\/revisions\/40943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}