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SAGADA, Mountain Province -- Opening a road from Sumaguing
cave road located here to Balili, Bontoc would enhance
tourism and promote the Balangagan Cave of southern Sagada.
The Sangguniang Bayan of Sagada and
barangay officials bared this in
their 2011 resolution requesting the Department of
Public Works and Highways Secretary Rogelio Singson to extend
the length of the Dantay-Sagada national road to
Sagada-Suyo-Balili road.
Sagada vice mayor Richard Yodong said the
Sagada-Balili road would highlight
Sagada’s other attractions within the infrastructure program
of the Department of Tourism’s priority development roads in
partnership with DPWH.
With this, an August 2012 joint resolution of
theSangguniang Bayan here and barangay officials of Sagada
reiterated the May 2011 resolution in the light of DPWH’s
identifying a Sabangan-Sagada road project not covering the Sagada-Balili
route identified in the SB’s resolution.
The 100 million peso Sabangan-Sagada road
is included in the 2013 projects covered under the DOT
funds for priority roads leading towards tourist
destinations, DPWH regional director EdilbertoCarabaccan in
an interview said.
Mountain Province –DPWH district engineer John Marquez said
survey operations are already being undergone along the
Sabangan-Sagada road passing through Sabangan-Madepdeppas-Data-Taccong-Suyo
route.
In an interview, DOT regional director
Purificacion Molintas said the P100 million Sagada-Sabangan Road
project refers to the road which she has inspected along the
Sagada-Suyo-Balili road.
She said she was not aware of any other Sabangan-Sagada road
aside from the Sagada-Suyo-Balili road leading towards
theSagada-Bontoc road near Sabangan.
Molintas endorsed said Sagada-Balili road
following Sagada SB’s resolution.
Funding of the proposed 11 kilometer Sagada-Balili road has
been earlier endorsed by the DOT in its priority tourism roads
program, following visit and inspection of said
Sagada-Balili road by Molintas during the town’s Etag
Festival February this year.
Molintas said proposed projects are finally validated by
the Tourism Coordinating Council composed of department of
heads of identified line agencies of the government
including DPWH and DOT.
With the Sagada-Balili road, the 13.5 kilometer
Dantay-Sagada national road ending along the road to
Sumaguing Cave shall extend to Suyo barangay and on to
Balili joining the Bontoc-Baguio national road.
The opening of the road shall serve as an alternative road
for visitors who visit Balangagan Cave to take this route from the
Bontoc-Baguio national highway and don’t have to travel the Sagada-Dantay road.
The road network towards
Balili serves to offer an alternative route to the only
Dantay- Sagada road leading to Sagada and Besao
municipalities.
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