Calbayog City – Calbayog City Mayor and Region 8 Regional Development Council (RDC) Chairperson Mel Senen Sarmiento said that RDC-8 has approved 5 loops for the island of Samar and that the same projects are geared to towards providing the most reliable network of highways that will connect the island’s various economic and urban centers and different towns.
Mayor Sarmiento said the statement in his speech being the guest speaker of the Good Governance Forum sponsored by the College of Accountancy students of Christ the King College (CKC) last Thursday (Jan. 21) in celebration of their annual ‘college days’.
According to Sarmiento the network of highways includes the Calbayog-Allen Road, Catarman-Calbayog via Lope de Vega Road, Laoang-Catubig-Las Navas Road, Laoang-Arteche Road, and Las Navas-Matuguinao-Gandara Road.
“We really have to build those roads,” Sarmiento said referring to those projects that still in need of fund for implementation that include the Las Navas-Matuguinao-Gandara Road. “Our RDC had already submitted (project proposals) for possible funding, though it will take time but we have to lobby very hard,” he said adding further that RDC-8 had been able to successfully access foreign banks to finance the construction of Laoang-Arteche Road which he hopes to commence construction soon.
While Catarman-Calbayog via Lope de Vega Road is already done and now being used by motorists, Allen-Calbayog Road however is now on its construction phase, Sarmiento said.
As he answered reactions from students, Mayor Sarmiento expressed with high hopes the prospect of economic development which soon will benefit the people of Western Samar, as Las Navas-Matuguinao-Gandara Road project will connect the people of Northern Samar to the Port of Catbalogan and the sea and airports of Calbayog City. The same will spur economic activity in this part of the island, Mayor Sarmiento said further.
During the forum Mayor Sarmiento did not only discuss to the students the regional development scenario but also his 2015 development agenda for the city of Calbayog that includes the expansion of the city proper and the construction of major economic infrastructure like the Public Market-Transport Terminal Complex in Bagacay area of Ramon Magsaysay Blvd and the conversion of the present Land Transport Terminal Building in Brgy. Capoocan into the Calbayog City Convention Center. (Ike Macasa/CMO)
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