Public Works and Highways Secretary Mark A. Villar announced that the Binondo-Intramuros Bridge Project in Manila is now 50 percent complete and targeted for opening seven (7) months from now.
Secretary Villar made the declaration as he inspect Thursday, February 4, 2021 the progress of works of the bridge project spanning over the Pasig River in Manila with Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian, DPWH Undersecretary for Unified Project Management Office (UPMO) Operations Emil K. Sadain, and Project Director Virgilio C. Castillo of DPWH UPMO Roads Management Cluster 1.
By September 2021, this attractive design of the arch bridge that symbolizes the friendly cooperation between China and the Philippines will become a new iconic landscape connecting the Binondo and Intramuros districts of Manila, said Secretary Villar.
Upon completion, it will carry extra traffic of around 30,000 vehicles per day and ease the traffic congestion between the Binondo and Intramuros, added Secretary Villar.
According to Undersecretary Sadain, the Binondo-Intramuros Bridge involves the construction of 4-lane basket-handle tied steel arch bridge with a total length of 680 lineal meter connecting the District of Intramuros at Solana Street and Riverside Drive and District of Binondo at Rentas Street/Plaza Del Conde Street and Muelle dela Industria having a viaduct structure over Estero de Binondo.
The project has a total cost of P3.39 Billion funded under the two (2) China Aid Bridges Project with the other bridge known as the Estrella-Pantaleon bridge connecting Makati and Mandaluyong in support to the President Rodrigo Roa Duterte administration’s Build, Build, Build program.
Designed with the new seismic specifications and taking into consideration the impact of climate change, the project employed many advanced construction methods shared by Chinese to the Filipino workers such as the steel arch bridge assembly, pushing method and the bottom construction method of the boxed cofferdam and building a solid piling foundation.