It seem's strange to me that Dumaguete and surrounding area's are getting so much roadworks when in my view the roads they are tearing up and in some places making almost impassable for months on end had nothing wrong with them before. Two places for example on the road north, beside the ford showroom and past Sibulan heading to and past Jo's chicken inato seafront restaurant, we went there for lunch and i have never seen so few customers there, probably down to the present state of the road. From memory i can't say i ever thought these roads needed repair, in a country with no budget for this and no budget for that then why fix what's not broken ? Call me cynical but i tend to suspect that the contractor doing the work may be a relation of whoever decides on these things
My wife has been complaining about this for the past few weeks now...she has her theories. I think it was early 2009 when I first went to Tanjay/Dumaguete and I don't remember since then where there wasn't road work...15 1/2 years.
I simply see it this way, money has to go around from one bank account to another bank account so that by the end when the job has been finished a lot of people are happy from the contractor to those doing unskilled labor.
On the subject of road improvement they are widening the concrete road beside us which i am grateful for BUT there's always a but, i am not a civil engineer or road widening expert but i think the in charge must have the drawing upside down as they have started widening the part furthest from town and working their way back. This of course means back hoes, big trucks and cement mixers thundering up and down the narrow road causing havoc with the internet and electric wires and also water pipes. I would have started at the town and worked my way up, just my opinion, if i said anything they would probably tell me they always do it that way.
