Admin bets vow to shower CamSur with infra projects

IRIGA CITY—The expansion of the runway of Naga Airport would be among the projects the Mar Roxas-Leni Robredo administration will prioritize, Reelectionist senator Franklin Drilon said in a Liberal Party sortie in Camarines Sur.

Liberal Party senatorial bets vowed on Friday to boost the tourism of Camarines Sur by pursuing the improvement of Naga City airport should they win in the upcoming elections.

“Importante ang turismo ng Camarines Sur. Ito ay tututukan ng Ro-Ro government,” Drilon said in a press conference before the LP campaign kickoff in the home province of Representative Robredo.

The current administration has allotted P3.5 billion for the expansion of Naga Airport’s runway and construction of new facilities seen to be completed in 2019.

Drilon said Naga City records the highest number of tourist arrivals among all cities and municipalities in Camarines Sur.

Since it has a shorter runway compared to other airports, Naga City Airport can only accommodate small turbo-propeller aircraft due to its limited capacities.

Senatorial aspirant Mark Lapid also said that aside from refurbishing the domestic airport, he would also push for the improved implementation of Philippine National Railways Bicol Express.

PNR operations in Bicol, which runs from Tutuban in Manila to Legazpi, are currently suspended after one of its trains got derailed in Sariaya, Quezon in 2012.

“Yung mga kalsada going to Caramoan at Peñafrancia museum talagang makikita niyo na magiimprove,” Lapid, formerly the chief of Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (Tieza), promised.

Administration bets, with President Benigno Aquino III, went here in Iriga City to kick off for the second time the campaign of the “Daang Matuwid” coalition. IDL