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Roads renamed after Carlos P. Garcia, Danding Cojuangco in new laws

Published Mar 24, 2024 09:37 am

President Marcos honored former president Carlos P. Garcia and the late businessman and ambassador Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco Jr. by signing new laws to renaming a circumferential road and bypass road after them.

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Former president Carlos P. Garcia and business tycoon Eduardo Cojuangco Jr. (Official Gazette)

 

On Sunday, March 24, the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) said that Marcos renamed the Bohol Island Circumferential Road as “The President Carlos P. Garcia Circumferential Road” through the four-page Republic Act No. 11987.
 

The road traverses through Brgy. Poblacion III, towards north of Tagbilaran City and returns to the same barangay from the eastern side of the city.   
 

He also signed into law Republic Act No. 11988, renaming the Urdaneta City Bypass Road to “Ambassador Eduardo ‘Danding’ M. Cojuangco Jr. Avenue.”
 

Cojuangco was an ally of the President’s father and namesake, the late former president Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr.
 

The avenue traverses the barangays of Nancayasan, Santo Domingo, Santa Lucia, Camantiles, and Anonas of Urdaneta City, Pangasinan. 
 

Two other laws signed were Republic Act No. 11989, renaming the Tambacan Bridge to “Mariano Lluch Badelles Sr. Bridge,” and Republic Act No. 11990, naming a national highway as the “Speaker Arnulfo ‘Noli’ Fuentebella Highway.”
 

The national highway stretches from Brgy. San Juan Bautista, traversing through Barangays Tagongtong, Abucayan, Hiwacloy, Digidigon, Balaynan, and Payatan in the Municipality of Goa.
 

The barangays included in the national highway are Lupi, Tierra Nevada, Binalay, Camagong, Salvacion, San Roque, San Ramon, Sagrada, La Medella, Magsaysay, and San Vicente in the Municipality of Tinambac up to Brgy. Nalayahan in the Municipality of Siruma, Province of Camarines Sur.
 

Meanwhile, Marcos also signed laws to renumber the first, second, third and fourth district engineering offices of Cebu City and to create a district engineering office in Southern Leyte Second District.
 

According to the PCO, Republic Act No. 11991 repealed Republic Acts No. 9043 and 9218 to re-number Cebu City’s first, second, third, and fourth district engineering offices “to conform and correspond, respectively, with the numbering of the legislative districts in the Province of Cebu.”
 

RA 11991 also provides that “each district engineering office shall serve the cities and municipalities under the respective legislative district.”
 

The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is mandated to issue the necessary rules, orders, and circulars to implement the provisions of RA 11991 within 60 days from its effectivity.
 

A complete list of the law, stating the designated areas of each district, is published on the Official Gazette.
 

Republic Act No. 11992, on the other hand, will create a DPWH district engineering office in Sogod, Southern Leyte Second District.
 

Officially, it will be named “Southern Leyte Second District Engineering Office.”
 

The “Southern Leyte Second District Engineering Office” will serve the municipalities of Anahawan, Hinunangan, Hinundayan, Libagon, Liloan, Pintuyan, St. Bernard, San Francisco, San Juan, San Ricardo, Silago, and Sogod. 
 

The laws, all signed on March 21, will take effect 15 days after its publications in the Official Gazette, or in a newspaper of general circulations.

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