DPWH Cagayan upgrades regional linkage to Apayao

By Liezle Inigo

LASAM, Cagayan -- The 180-km road section along Ayaga-Sta. Marcela- Flora-Lasam Road in this municipality is now fully-concreted.

This was reported last week by Dept. of Public Works and Highways-Cagayan Second District Engineering Office saying, it completed its inter-regional road linkage between Region II and Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) through the Province of Apayao.

District Engineer Lorna B. Asutan, believed that the newly-completed road will improve mobility of transportation and the accessibility to various goods and services.

This will also benefit the residents in the locale and the businessmen.

The newly-upgraded road project connects the town of Lasam in Cagayan to Sta. Marcela in Apayao.

“The completion of this project will help in bringing development opportunities that will uplift the socio-economic status of the residents,” De Asuten emphasized.

And added that the road will also shorten travel time from Lasam, Cagayan to the different places in the Apayao Province,” she continued.

Aside from the concreting of the said tertiary road which amounted to P62.265 million pesos, the project also included the installation of drainage system and slope protection structures.

The project was funded under the General Appropriations Act of 2018.