Works on a diversion road worth over P60 million at the Cebu Transcentral Highway in Barangay Malubog, upland Cebu City have been ongoing for about four years already. 

It was in 2022 when GMA Regional TV Balitang Bisdak checked the road project where posts for a supposed bridge was erected, seen as a solution to the perennial soil erosion in the area.

The Cebu Transcentral Highway is a thoroughfare in upland Cebu that connects Cebu City and Balamban town in Cebu Province. 

After three years, GMA Regional TV Balitang Bisdak returned to the area and verified that works have not yet been completed.

It was learned from Franklin Apilinio, a foreman who works for the second contractor of the project, that they have assumed the road works. 

The first contractor turned over the project to the second contractor about two months ago, he said. 

Apilinio added that they were the ones who erected the sheet piles and placed the filling materials for the project. However, Apilinio’s statement is limited because his supervisor is not around during the interview. 

Ongoing works by a second contractor are a welcome development to residents and motorists who have complained for years of the sorry state of the said portion of the road, posing hazard to motorists and pedestrians. 

Resident, such as Crispino Cordidor and Toto Flores, said that vehicular accidents in the area are common because of the risk the uncompleted project poses.

GMA Regional TV Balitang Bisdak saw that equipment owned by the previous contractor are still at the site, but no one is available for an interview. 

Further, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Cebu City Engineering Office declined an interview, and even asked a formal letter request before it can provide documents on the said project.