Can they make it happen?
“The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) on Tuesday, Jan 21, bared before the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) its plans to build a bridge that would link Taguig City’s Bonifacio Global City (BGC) with the Pasig City’s Ortigas Center and a vehicle underpass at the heart of Makati’s business district,” reports Mike Frialde on Philstar.com.
The DPWH presented the undertaking before the sectoral committee on infrastructure development of the MMDA-Regional Development Council. Dubbed as the “Bonifacio Global City to Ortigas Center Link Road Project,” it aims to directly link the two bustling business districts and will also provide accessibility between the cities of Pasig, Mandaluyong, Taguig, and Makati.
The report explained: “The project, which involves the construction of a “bank-to-bank” bridge (similar to the design of the Marcelo Fernan Bridge in Cebu) that would cross the Pasig River along J.P. Rizal Street in Makati near the Makati Park and Garden to Sta. Monica Street in Pasig City across.”
Then, as the report went on to detail, “from the bridge, the route would take the motorist travelling from the BGC through Sta. Monica Street through Shaw Boulevard and then to West Capitol Drive near where the high-end Capitol Commons residential area (formerly the Rizal Capitol) is located.”
According to the DPWH, the construction of the project will start this July and is scheduled to be completed by June of 2016.
