22 December 2009
QC opens 2nd pedestrian underpass
Two years after opening the City’s first underpass, Mayor Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. will inaugurate Quezon City’s second pedestrian underpass, which will be another safe, convenient and scenic passageway to the Quezon Memorial Circle.
The Mayor expressed optimism about the benefits of this new walkway. “The second underpass will link the booming UP-Ayala Technohub with the soon to rise QC central business district at the North and East Triangles, which will merge at the QMC. That’s why the QMC itself is under massive development to establish its position as Metro Manila’s central park,” Mayor Belmonte said. This new passageway has been strategically located to link eventually the Metro Manila’s mass transit system.
The entrance to this second underpass is near the Philippine Coconut Authority, Department of Agrarian Reform, National Housing Authority, and the Philippine Information Agency.
The construction of this P87 million underpass by the Quezon City government consists of two phases: the first consisting of the drilling of this 6-meter deep, 6-meter wide, and more than 70-meter long tunnel, while the second will provide aesthetic entrance and exit areas, and an elevator to make the underpass accessible to physically-challenged persons and the elderly.
City Engineering Office head Joselito Cabungcal added that an underpass was constructed, instead of an overpass so as not to obstruct the aesthetics of the Quezon pylon, a 66-meter memorial marker for the late President Manuel Quezon whose remains lie at the heart of the park.
The first pedestrian underpass in Quezon City was completed in October 2007, connecting the city hall with the QMC. Both were upon the initiative of the Belmonte Administration.
