The new Bago Aplaya-Talomo section of the Davao City Coastal Road is attracting a large crowd eager to take advantage of the walking, biking, playing, jogging, exercising, and skating facilities. The project is a component of the massive Davao City Coastal Road Project.
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Photo by: Ulysses Nemeno
The project is a "composite highway with larger components" designed to alleviate the burgeoning traffic along the Cotabato-Davao Road from the Toril area to the city proper. Additionally, the coastal road serves as a coastal shore protection and breakwater that shields the city from sea wave actions, water surges, and shore erosion.
The road facilities were built by the DPWH on an embankment with an average height of around 6.50 meters, complete with drainage and separation geotextiles. A substantial amount of earthwork (borrow materials) is required. On one side, tubes were installed as protection, while Class I and Class II rocks, as well as hexapods, a seawall, and a wave deflector, were used to reduce the intensity of wave actions, which are common in the area during the northeast monsoon season. On the other hand, over Class III rocks, grouted riprap slope protection was built. |
Many residents in nearby subdivisions were grateful for this project because it kept them from being affected by the surge effect. A four-lane (15.40-meter road width) asphalt pavement with anti-rutting additive, a bicycle lane, and a curb, gutter, and sidewalk are all part of the project. The total width of the road, including the off-carriageway, is 25.54 meters, which is equivalent to an 8-lane highway.
The coastal road project covers a distance of 17.352 kilometers, stretching from Jct. Bago (south), Jct. Talomo, Matina Aplaya, Roxas Avenue to Sta. Ana Wharf toward R. Castillo Avenue (north). It is divided into four segments: Segment A - Bago Aplaya Times Beach, 7.620 kilometers; Segment B - Times Beach - Roxas Avenue, 4.557 kilometers; Segment C- Roxas Avenue-Sta. Ana Wharf Road, 2.026; and Segment D - Sta. Ana Wharf Road - Alcantara, R. Castillo, 3.149 kilometers.
Other features include a detour/access road, metal guardrails, roundabouts at Times Beach and Roxas Avenue, a concrete fence with posts, roadway lighting, plant boxes, and drainage structures made of high-density polyethylene pipes for maximum impermeability. However, due to the numerous informal settlers surrounding the project, several resorts along the Talomo coastline, and several institutional structures that would be impacted but are required for the project, the DPWH encountered difficulties in acquiring the road right of way.
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