Execs push for Subic-Clark road in Angeles City
ANGELES CITY -- Local government officials here reiterated on Sunday their call on the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) to build an interchange along Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway (SCTEx) to allow the city's economy to enjoy the benefits of the multibillion-peso tollway.
The expressway is being constructed with a 41,931 million Yen loan from the Japan's Special Yen (ODA) Loan Facility from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).
Japan's Special Yen (ODA) Loan Facility was instituted in December 1998 to help bring early recovery to the crisis-affected Asian economies.
In a resolution sponsored by Councilor Jay Sangil, the City Council here also resolved to request the BCDA headed by retired General Narciso Abaya Jr. to furnish the City Government blueprints of SCTEx.
Sangil said the City Government, including Mayor Carmelo Lazatin, wants to see the construction plans particularly of the portion within the territorial jurisdiction of Angeles City showing the proposed site of the interchange in Barangay Margot near the Clark Special Economic Zone (CSEZ).
The SCTEx is being constructed by the Japanese construction firms Hazama-Taisei-Nippon Steel Joint Venture and the Kajima Industries, Incorporated. It is intended to link the special economic zones in the former US military bases now known as Subic Freeport and Clark ecozone, which boast of a ship port and an airport.
When completed, the 93.77-kilometer four-lane tollway, SCTEx will provide a direct link among industrial, economic and tourism zones in Central Luzon, specifically the Clark Special Economic Zone, Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Central Techno Park in Tarlac and the Bataan Technology Park.
Sangil said Lazatin, Vice Mayor Ricardo Zalamea and the city councilors agreed that the interchange in Angeles City is vital to propel the local economy, which plays a crucial role in achieving President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's Global Gateways Development Program.
"The Arroyo administration intended the Global Gateways program as the first step in driving the country's global competitiveness. With Angeles City at the mid-point of SCTEx, providing an interchange will greatly enhance growth in the area and spill-over to the adjacent towns and provinces," Sangil said.
"However, without an interchange, the people of Angeles City, especially the business sector, will be deprived of the opportunities and benefits expected to be borne by the construction of SCTEx," he added.
Earlier, Abaya told reporters that SCTEx, although suffering a slippage of about seven percent in December, will be finished on time and within the budget.
Abaya also announced that despite the slippages, construction work on SCTEx project is 53-percent complete.
By Dante M. Fabian - Sun Star
The expressway is being constructed with a 41,931 million Yen loan from the Japan's Special Yen (ODA) Loan Facility from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).
Japan's Special Yen (ODA) Loan Facility was instituted in December 1998 to help bring early recovery to the crisis-affected Asian economies.
In a resolution sponsored by Councilor Jay Sangil, the City Council here also resolved to request the BCDA headed by retired General Narciso Abaya Jr. to furnish the City Government blueprints of SCTEx.
Sangil said the City Government, including Mayor Carmelo Lazatin, wants to see the construction plans particularly of the portion within the territorial jurisdiction of Angeles City showing the proposed site of the interchange in Barangay Margot near the Clark Special Economic Zone (CSEZ).
The SCTEx is being constructed by the Japanese construction firms Hazama-Taisei-Nippon Steel Joint Venture and the Kajima Industries, Incorporated. It is intended to link the special economic zones in the former US military bases now known as Subic Freeport and Clark ecozone, which boast of a ship port and an airport.
When completed, the 93.77-kilometer four-lane tollway, SCTEx will provide a direct link among industrial, economic and tourism zones in Central Luzon, specifically the Clark Special Economic Zone, Subic Bay Freeport Zone, Central Techno Park in Tarlac and the Bataan Technology Park.
Sangil said Lazatin, Vice Mayor Ricardo Zalamea and the city councilors agreed that the interchange in Angeles City is vital to propel the local economy, which plays a crucial role in achieving President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's Global Gateways Development Program.
"The Arroyo administration intended the Global Gateways program as the first step in driving the country's global competitiveness. With Angeles City at the mid-point of SCTEx, providing an interchange will greatly enhance growth in the area and spill-over to the adjacent towns and provinces," Sangil said.
"However, without an interchange, the people of Angeles City, especially the business sector, will be deprived of the opportunities and benefits expected to be borne by the construction of SCTEx," he added.
Earlier, Abaya told reporters that SCTEx, although suffering a slippage of about seven percent in December, will be finished on time and within the budget.
Abaya also announced that despite the slippages, construction work on SCTEx project is 53-percent complete.
By Dante M. Fabian - Sun Star
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