Development of Bacolod-Silay Airport.
Bacolod City Mayor said that Bacolod-Silay Airport is soon up for upgrading with P20 Billion budget allocated by the national government.
Transportation is important for multiple reasons because it includes travel, economic activity, and mobility. Transportation provides an effective way to transport people and commodities from one place to another place.
Air transport is the recent mode of transport that provides unbroken journey over land and sea. It is also the fastest mode of transport that provides a regular, comfortable, efficient and quick service when time is an important factor.
In the Philippines, the air transportation is relatively underdeveloped partly as a result of the government’s persistent underinvestment in the nation’s infrastructure.
However, the Philippine government has been pushing to improve the transportation system in the country.
Take this recent news as an example.
In a report of Sunstar, Bacolod-Silay Airport is soon up for upgrading.
Bacolod City Mayor Evelio Leonardia is happy to announce that the Bacolod-Silay Airport is among the five key regional airports that soon up for a 20-billion upgrading.
Mayor Leonardia was happy that the development of the airport will push through. He revealed that the airport needs an immediate expansion and its size must be doubled.
In a press conference, Mayor Leonardia recalls that among the first thing he did when he became the senior vice chairman of the committee on transportation was to lobby the upgrading of the Bacolod-Silay Airport.
“I wrote the then DOTC [Department of Transportation and Communication] and personally followed it up with the then Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya as regards the expansion of the terminal and the extension of the runway,” the mayor said.
The Bacolod City Mayor said that the airport is soon up for upgrading with the budget of P20-Billion that was allocated by the national government could not be finished in a year’s time but will be implemented from 20 to 30 years.
