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San Juanico Bridge

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San Juanico Bridge
San Juanico Bridge
San Juanico Bridge
San Juanico Bridge
San Juanico Bridge
San Juanico Bridge
San Juanico Bridge
San Juanico Bridge
San Juanico Bridge
San Juanico Bridge
San Juanico Bridge
San Juanico Bridge
San Juanico Bridge
San Juanico Bridge
San Juanico Bridge
Phone:
09028464356

Address:
Tacloban, Tacloban, Leyte Province, Philippines

San Juanico Bridge is part of the Pan-Philippine Highway and stretches from Samar to Leyte across the San Juanico Strait in the Philippines. Its longest length is a steel girder viaduct built on reinforced concrete piers, and its main span is of an arch-shaped truss design. Constructed during the Marcos administration using Japanese Official Development Assistance loans, it has a total length of 2.16 kilometers - the longest bridge spanning a body of seawater in the Philippines. Touted as President Ferdinand Marcos' birthday gift to his wife Imelda, it was one of the high-visibility foreign-loan projects initiated by Marcos during the run-up to the 1969 Presidential election campaign. Completed four years later, it was inaugurated on July 2, 1973 - Imelda Marcos' birthday. Upon its completion, economists and public works engineers quickly tagged it as a white elephant which was constructed several decades too soon, because its average daily traffic was too low to justify the cost of its construction. As a result, its construction has been associated with what has been called the Marcoses' edifice complex.In the decades after the Marcoses administration, economic activity in Samar and Leyte has finally caught up with the bridge's intended function, and it has become an iconic tourist attraction acknowledged as part of the identity of people in Samar and Leyte.
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