DAGUPAN CITY – The Second Highway Engineering District has assured that the ongoing upgrading of 650-meter portion of the Dagupan-Binmaley-Lingayen road in barangay Tapuac here will be completed before the rainy season.

Rodolfo Dion, second highway district engineer, said the portion of the road, which is flood-prone, is now being elevated by 70 meters.

Costing P20 million, the project will even be finished before the city’s Bangus Festival slated sometime in April this year, he said.

The Bangus Festival is expected to draw a banner crowd that will come not only from Pangasinan but also from the whole region.

A drainage system was constructed ahead of the elevation work on the road way.

With the construction work now in full blast, the roadway has been declared for one-way traffic yet till March 15 when it will be totally closed. (PNA)