THE TUMAGBOK Bridge in Miagao, Iloilo, which has been widened to four lanes from two at a cost of P200 million, will soon be fully opened to motorists, the Department of Public Works and Highways-Western Visayas-6 (DPWH) announced. “We are currently concreting the remaining two lanes of approaches on both sides of the bridge and when completed, we can fully open the bridge to the motorists and the general public,” DPWH-6 Regional Director Wenceslao M. Leaño, Jr., said in a statement. The bridge is part of the Iloilo-Antique Road, the main thoroughfare from Iloilo City to the southern part of Iloilo province and Antique. Miagao is home to the Santo Tomas de Villanueva Parish Church, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and one of the main campuses of the University of the Philippines Visayas.

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