The Diosdado Macapagal Bridge - Longest Bridge in Mindanao Island
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(DSC02670) The Diosdado Macapagal Bridge is the longest bridge in Mindanao, which is 3 kilometers upstream of the old Magsaysay Bridge and provides an alternate route across the Agusan River to connect the Philippine-Japan Friendship Highway (Surigao-Agusan-Davao road) and the Butuan City-Cagayan-Iligan road. The bridge is gaining popularity as the only cable stayed bridge with steel deck and single tower in Mindanao. It was during the Presidency of Joseph Estrada that the project was approved, and which was lobbied by the city government way back President Fidel Ramos' time, to decongest the traffic of the more than 50 year old Magsaysay Bridge. However, it was President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo who approved and implemented the project. The bridge was funded through a Special Yen Loan Package from Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). The project was started on May 6, 2004 and completed in May 2007. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo inaugurated the newly-completed 2.2 –billion Diosdado Macapagal Bridge and the Butuan Bypass Road project on July 10, 2007, touted by the Butuanons as a "legacy that would last a hundred years and make life easier for the whole of the CARAGA Growth Area." (Taken from http://amazingbutuan.blogspot.com/2009/0 4/diosdado-macapagal-bridge.html)
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