Perennial flooding worsened damage on portion of the MacArthur Highway on the boundary of Bocaue and Balagtas towns, Bulacan province. The DPWH has started repair work on the road. CARMELA REYES-ESTROPE
CITY OF MALOLOS—The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has started repair work on damaged portions of the MacArthur Highway on the boundary of Bocaue and Balagtas towns, Bulacan province.
Engineer Henry Alcantara, of the province’s first district engineering office, said flood had damaged some 200 meters of the road near the entrance of a rice mill hub straddling the villages of San Juan, Balagtas and Wakas in Bocaue.
The road repair began on Nov. 24 and will be completed by the first quarter of 2021, Alcantara said.
Trucks and other heavy vehicles regularly pass through the MacArthur Highway, leaving potholes that got worse when floods swamped the area and which are now causing a traffic bottleneck.