Zf487

Zf487. Image 053 & 054 show a brand new bridge over the Matain River with no roads leading to it or departing from it. So, I jokingly said to myself, ah, the bridge to nowhere. This bridge is located about 5 km inland from the Zambales National Highway, up the Matain River, just passed the barangay (village) Naugsol. This valley is the next valley, NW, from Barrio Barretto. I asked people, where to and they said: it is for a new road to Bataan, in other words, an Olongapo bypass road. Well in Jan. 2022 I discovered that the authorities are finishing, concreting to road leading to it from the NW. But I’m afraid it will take many years before this road will be finished, they have to across many steep ridgelines or build tunnels thru them. Meanwhile the local people enjoy a bath in the shade from the bridge.

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