Road widening in N. Bacalso to continue after tree issues

On December 2019, the DPWH-7 decided to suspend the road widening at the N. Bacalso-F. Llamas Street junction of the two lanes along the Mambaling Underpass due to the lack of funds to fulfill the request of the city government to earthball the trees.

They were originally given permission by the 14th City Council to continue with the project and cut the trees in the area, but the 15th City Council objected to the cutting of the trees.In a February 6, 2020 letter to the city government, the DPWH-7 said that they had been advised to continue the project by DPWH Secretary Mark Villar, who inspected the area during his January 23, 2020 visit to Cebu City.

Councilor Jerry Guardo, council’s committee on infrastructure chairperson, said they had called on the DPWH to a Citizen’s Hour in the council to explain the road widening and how the agency planned to deal with the trees. He said that the DPWH would still have to follow the guidelines of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources when it would come to the cutting or earth balling of the trees, which would depend on the width of the tree.

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