The flames at the San Miguel Yamamura Packaging Corporation plastics plant along Tomas Claudio Street were finally contained at around 1:50 p.m., according to the Manila Disaster Risk and Reduction Management Office. However, part of the skyway gave in before then apparently due to the heat of the Manila Plastics Plant fire.
"It's a portion of Skyway Stage 3 parapet that was damaged. Stage 3 is still under construction and therefore, not operational. We are still assessing the extent of damage," Skyway Corporate Communications head Marlene Ochoa said in a statement. The Skyway Stage 3 road project is an 18.3 kilometer-long elevated expressway extending from Buendia in Makati City to the North Luzon Expressway or NLEX at Balintawak in Quezon City.
The infrastructure project aims to connect the NLEX and SLEX, while decongesting traffic in Metro Manila especially along C4 (primarily EDSA), C5 (CP Garcia) and Central Metro Manila, according to the official Public-Private Partnership Center website.< It would also complete the Metro Manila Skyway System from Alabang to Balintawak, in accordance with the government-approved agreement between Citra Lamtoro Gung Persada and the Philippine National Construction Company.
Project benefits include reducing travel time from Buendia to Balintawak to just 15 to 20 minutes from two hours and reducing road traffic by as much as 55,000 vehicles daily.
SOURCE: www.philstar.com
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