Clark Green City access road to be completed next month

The 19.4-kilometer road project which will provide access to the P607-billion Clark Green City development project is set to be completed by next month, state-owned Bases Conversion Development Authority (BCDA) announced over the weekend.

The BCDA said the access road is expected to be completed on July 15, 2016, as construction is now on full blast and the project already 60-percent complete.

"The bulldozers are on full throttle and we are on track in building the country's first smart, green and disaster-resilient metropolis," BCDA President and CEO Arnel Paciano D. Casanova said in an emailed statement.

"Once the roads are completed, we start breaking ground for the various development projects located at different sites of Clark Green City," he added.

Aside from this, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has also already began the construction of two more roads leading to the Clark Green City -- the seven-kilometer Mac Arthur Access expected to be completed by the second quarter of 2017, and the 16-kilometer Clark Airport-Bamban-Capas Access Road project set to be completed in 2018.

The Clark Green City is located within the Clark Special Economic Zone in the Tarlac province which will cater to some 1.12 million residents at full development. The BCDA pegs a gross annual output of P1.57 trillion to the national economy. This is roughly four percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP).

Among the different institutions that the urban city will house are the University of the Philippines Clark Green City Campus, the Technological University of the Philippines Center for Industrial Development and Productivity (TUP-CINDEP), and the Philippine Science High School Central Luzon Campus Extension and Fabrication Laboratory. —ALG, GMA News