A resident of Moises Padilla in Negros Occidental has built a floating bridge to reconnect residents of two barangays following Typhoon “Tino”.
Typhoon “Tino” destroyed the Palaypay hanging bridge that connects Barangay Quintin Remo to Barangay Guinpana-an.
This cut off the connection between 7,601 residents of Barangay Quintin Remo and 3,451 in Barangay Guinpana-an, Conrado Garcia, Moises Padilla information officer, said.
Igmi Nicor and his floating bridge*
To address the problem Igmi Nicor, a resident of Barangay Guinpana-an, initiated the construction of a floating bridge.
“I decided to build the floating bridge to help reconnect the two communities,” Nicor said.
Nicor borrowed P50,000 from his sibling and hired workers to build what has been dubbed as the “Bayanihan Bridge”.
To pay for the loan and ongoing maintenance of the bridge, he collects a small fee of P5 per person and P10 for motorcycles.
Because the floating bridge is temporary and made of bamboo, only single motorcycles and people can pass through it, Garcia said.*