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Delays in Skyway Stage 3 project will ensure 'safety' of infrastructure: DPWH

Delays in Skyway Stage 3 project will ensure 'safety' of infrastructure: DPWH

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A view of the collapsed portion of the Skyway Stage 3 in Pandacan, Manila on February 3, 2020. George Calvelo, ABS-CBN News

MANILA – Delays in the opening of the Skyway Stage 3 project will allow San Miguel to rebuild structures and girders of its collapsed section in Manila City, ensuring the infrastructure's safety, a government official said Monday.

San Miguel needs to remove and rebuild affected steel structures of the Skyway Stage 3 project that was damaged from a warehouse fire over the weekend in Pandacan, Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark Villar told ANC.

Consequently, it will extend the project's target completion period from April of this year, to either the third or fourth quarter.

"Kailangan i-rebuild kasi 'pag may sunog, kailangan gibain muna yung nasunog kasi yung bakal, baka nag-soften yung bakal. Sa amin, safety muna. Kailangan i-rebuild yung structure," Villar said.

("It has to be rebuilt because the portion that was burned needs to be demolished as the steel might have softened. For us, it's safety first. So, the structure has to be rebuilt.")

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"Hopefully, sana by the end of the third quarter. Baka umabot pa ng fourth quarter... Magkakaroon talaga ng delay," he added.

("Hopefully, by the end of the third quarter. Or it may even extend until the fourth quarter... Certainly, there will be a delay.")

A part of the toll road project collapsed last Saturday due to a warehouse fire in Pandacan.

San Miguel earlier said it would work “24/7” to complete the project by July.

The project, which aims to cut travel time between Buendia and Balintawak to 15 minutes, is almost 80 percent complete, Villar said.

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