Philippine National Infrastructure and Urban Planning

[tigidig14]

^yes, sasakyan dun ng tricycle papuntang sta. mesa or G. tuazon. tapos may maliit na talipapa sa kanto, tapos may andoks, ngayun nga I was suprised when i went home. it even has jolibe and 7-11 in that corner

[bagel]

Traffic dun sa umaga. Dumadaan kami dun papunta sa UDMC (doon Doc dati lolo ko).

[_zner_]

theirs an article before in inquirer year 1999 or 2000 that theyre going to built a bridge connecting bataan and cavite...

[bagel]

Paano makakadaan ang mga barko kung may bridge dun? Dapat mataas na mataas ang bridge a la Golden Gate.

[kiretoce]

Originally Posted by (((myx)))

theirs an article before in inquirer year 1999 or 2000 that theyre going to built a bridge connecting bataan and cavite...

How long of a span would that be? If that happens, that is indeed "extreme engineering!"

[bustero]

That's an old dream , every generation seems to thin it up but is shot down because there's not much economic sense for it right now, not enough people and traffic to warrant it. If they want to do a Super bridge it should be San Bernardino (maybe impossible) and Surigao Straits. Those will be real extreme engineering with great economic benefits! Then subsequently link up Leyte to Cebu to Negros to Panay. That would really be a great site to see with most of the countries largest islands with big populations now accesible via land! Baka sila Renel at Sinjin na lang makakaabot niyan sa atin and pag 90 na sila!

[bagel]

I hope that the polar ice caps don't melt before then, if ever something like that would be built.

[pau_p1]

about building bridges among our islands... I think that it would be very costly... but anyways... as of the moment GMA has made this almost possible with her nautical highway project where Roll-On-Roll-Off ferry would connect our highways.. from Batangas to Calapan to Roxas to Cebu.. or to Negros to Mindanao... etc...

anyways.. yeah I heard of that project of building a bridge to connec the Bataan peninsula to a point in Cavite... I hope that would come true one day...

[ryanr]

Kinda OT, but since we are talking about connecting the islands....i always remember this one commercial from the Philippines where they have people pulling ropes from one island to another, therefore physically moving the islands to create one mainland. It was pretty cool, i think it was a phone company.

[tigidig14]

i think they should put a massive land between islands instead of using bridges. so, at least they can be habitable, less job and less money pouring on the project. i know it will effect the ecosystem but what about children's future

[pau_p1]

hmm.. I don't think it's good.. because those gaps or channels between islands have been nautical roads of economics for us... Freighters pass thru the channels in between Bicol and Samar to reach the Batangas Port.. also the the channel between Leyte and Mindanao has been nautical highways of international freighters....

dumping land in between islands would block off these pathways and freighters would need take longer routes to get to their destinations... remember that the Panama Canal was built to help shorten Freighters trip... our channels has been very much advatageous to us...

plus of course migrating sea creatures like the whale shark and manta rays swim thru these waters... and where would the land to be dumped in the seas would come from... hehehe environmentalist sounding ba.. hehehe...

[bustero]

Originally Posted by boybaha

I hope that the polar ice caps don't melt before then, if ever something like that would be built.

hehe well you do know the other side of the theory is that the present global warming trend may trigger an ice age, so that would mean less water and more land for us BUT that also means the bridges would not be needed again haha

well sa totoo lang if we really want to uplift the pinoy
then the top infra isn't mrt, naia, urban highways in mm,cebu,davao but far less romantic but much more effective in terms of peso per peso spend/yirld

1000's of kilometers of farm to market roads, irrigations ditches for about 2000000 hectars, electrification for the last 3000 barangays or so, more roro ports. This would be a huge boost to agri which would uplift the poorest half of the country. and it doesn't take much to make a poor guy making US$ 1 a day to US$ 2 a day but man if that happens our effective gdp per cap goes to US$ 9500 on PPP basis. That's like Greece or something.

Of course the thread is extreme engineering so di puede, I vote for the worlds largest escalator from Davao to Mt. Apo as a tourist attraction. Just stand and you see the wonders of the National Park!

[tigidig14]

Originally Posted by pau_p1

hmm.. I don't think it's good.. because those gaps or channels between islands have been nautical roads of economics for us... Freighters pass thru the channels in between Bicol and Samar to reach the Batangas Port.. also the the channel between Leyte and Mindanao has been nautical highways of international freighters....

dumping land in between islands would block off these pathways and freighters would need take longer routes to get to their destinations... remember that the Panama Canal was built to help shorten Freighters trip... our channels has been very much advatageous to us...

plus of course migrating sea creatures like the whale shark and manta rays swim thru these waters... and where would the land to be dumped in the seas would come from... hehehe environmentalist sounding ba.. hehehe...

ka-birthday, ofcourse they should put a gap between those massive damping of dirt. so it doesnt lessen our nautical economy and between those gap, they must build bridges that would connect those made up island, similar to mactan bridge

geez forget about those fish, we mainly will eat it anyways, just save those beaches in palawan, cebu, n boracay. were not looking forward for our future here.

we can get xtra dirt coming from those mining activities

[richard fischer]

i like your propositions bustero. yes, help the masses make a living. it is in the sence of cristianity and the will of god. and after all, it is your people who need help to live a decent life.

[bagel]

Well, like someone said earlier-- cleaning up the esteros of Manila is extreme engineering.

Likewise, engineering an agreement between Piatco, other parties and the government would be rather extreme as well.

Or whatabout engineering COMELEC computerization-- it's been promised since Ramos's time.

[tigidig14]

Originally Posted by bustero

hehe well you do know the other side of the theory is that the present global warming trend may trigger an ice age, so that would mean less water and more land for us BUT that also means the bridges would not be needed again haha

well sa totoo lang if we really want to uplift the pinoy
then the top infra isn't mrt, naia, urban highways in mm,cebu,davao but far less romantic but much more effective in terms of peso per peso spend/yirld

1000's of kilometers of farm to market roads, irrigations ditches for about 2000000 hectars, electrification for the last 3000 barangays or so, more roro ports. This would be a huge boost to agri which would uplift the poorest half of the country. and it doesn't take much to make a poor guy making US$ 1 a day to US$ 2 a day but man if that happens our effective gdp per cap goes to US$ 9500 on PPP basis. That's like Greece or something.

Of course the thread is extreme engineering so di puede, I vote for the worlds largest escalator from Davao to Mt. Apo as a tourist attraction. Just stand and you see the wonders of the National Park!

how 'bout opening the bataan nuclear power plant. it would lessen the masses burden towards electricity bill. it woud help pay some of our debt towards world bank, the money we used for this biggest white elephant infrastructure in the philippines history.

[LhexiMont]

Anyone remember that photo of that airport on Laguna de Bay? Someone should post that, that's one extreme engineering endeavour if there ever was one!

Yah I read that also that the airport will supposed to be constructed in Talim Island .
In connection with that also a proposed three huge island reclamation along Laguna de Bay spanning the cities of Taguig , Muntinlupa and town of San Pedro will be constructed . This three island project was supposed to eradicate the lake of too much fishpens owned by a few businessmen and deepen /desilt the lake so it can be utilized as an alternative water transportation. In lieu of these beautiful coastal highways and bridges spanning the project will also be built .
The three island reclamation project ( Taguig portion -medium size, industrial zone / Muntinlupa portion -large size, commercial -business-recreation zone / San Pedro portion-small size , waste management /landfill zone ) .

[pau_p1]

extreme engineering that I think that I would like to see is like what they did on that elevated highway in Boston that they rebuilt the road underground with parks on ground level... I'll like to see this done for EDSA..

[renell]

hmm... that Cebu Superdome well isn't really extreme, but it could be one of the biggest in terms of capacity in the whole country. And compared to the Araneta, there's much more architectural input into it ie it looks better.

another piece of extreme engineering would be Skyway. They can't just simply build an overhead highway, they would need a lot dodging around districts, and places might not like the shade, obstructing their view etc. etc.

[tigidig14]

Originally Posted by pau_p1

extreme engineering that I think that I would like to see is like what they did on that elevated highway in Boston that they rebuilt the road underground with parks on ground level... I'll like to see this done for EDSA..

u meant the big dig , i think theyre almost done