Pangasinan Today

 By AUDREY D. HIDALGO

 Managing Editor

THE ON-GOING P20-million project designed to elevate the

in Dagupan is anticipated to be completed before the city celebrates the Bangus Festival starting on the last week of April this year.

In an interview, Rodolfo Dion, an engineer and head of the Second Pangasinan Engineering District of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) told the Pangasinan Today that the road elevation project must have to be completed before the rainy season.

Dion said the project is designed to elevate by .70 meters, the road stretch of 650 meters of the

.

He explained that while his men could work on only one lane at a time, they are doing their best to beat the scheduled time frame of completing the projects in two-months since it started in February this year.

Aside from this, other projects which the DPWH is undertaking in

Dion said the DPWH has already starting asphalt works for roads in AreallanoSt.,

.

Due to these on-going projects, Dion applealed to all Dagupenos to bear with the incoveniences that go along with the road works because the programs, after all, are for the benefit of residents and visitors moving in and out of the city’s road network.

Meanwhile, Dion disclosed that projects like the construction of drainage system and concreting of shoulders along the

have already been finished.