{"id":41847,"date":"2015-02-11T15:24:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T07:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=41847"},"modified":"2015-02-11T15:24:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T07:24:33","slug":"ph-highest-bridge-in-danger-of-collapsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/11\/ph-highest-bridge-in-danger-of-collapsing\/","title":{"rendered":"PH highest bridge in danger of collapsing"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_41860\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41860\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Agasagas-bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41860\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Agasagas-bridge-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Wikipedia Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; Agas-agas, the country&#8217;s highest bridge, standing at 84 meters in Sogod, Southern Leyte, is in danger of collapsing.<\/p>\n<p>For the past 12 months, heavy rains in Eastern Visayas area have caused landslide eventually resulting to erosion of the protective coves of the\u00a0350-meter-long bridge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scouring that occurred were only about 10 meters apart from both bridge piers,\u201d said a recent report of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) head office in Manila.<\/p>\n<p>The agency also noted that\u00a0\u201cprevious preventive measures applied on the structure, such as gabion flood controls and drainage canals, have also been washed out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It cited reports from the DPWH office in Region 8 adding that the current conditions could seriously ruin the structure&#8217;s foundation, according to\u00a0Public Works Secretary Rogelio Singson.<\/p>\n<p>Because of this, the department has set aside P46,63 million for the plan and program of work designed to prevent the complete damage of the bridge.<\/p>\n<p>A public bidding for the project has also been scheduled by the department early tis month in Maasin City, the capital of Southern Leyte.<\/p>\n<p>The structure was built\u00a0by the Arroyo administration from\u00a0Nov. 17, 2006, to Aug. 2, 2009, with a P1.24-billion funding from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; Agas-agas, the country&#8217;s highest bridge, standing at 84 meters in Sogod, Southern Leyte, is in danger of collapsing. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":41860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}