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EDSA rehab plan scrapped in favor of new technology
Business World Philippines
|June 03, 2025
THE GOVERNMENT agencies with rehabilitating Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) will ditch the conventional building methods they had planned to employ and will pursue a new approach, including the possible use of new technology, the Department of Transportation (DoTr) said.
"We cannot do the project in a conventional way. The rebuild as presented will not be followed. It will be scrapped, the President ordered us to change the whole plan to find a better way," Transportation Secretary Vivencio B. Dizon said at a briefing on Monday.
President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. has ordered the postponement of the rehabilitation by one month. It had originally been scheduled to start in mid-June.
This story is from the June 03, 2025 edition of Business World Philippines.
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