WITHOUT any hitches, two major road infrastructures in Region 11 will soon be completed this December.

According to Department of Public Works and Highways 11 Director Osop Ali, both the Boston-Manay Road and the Talaingod-Bukidnon Road are 95 percent complete.

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"Finishing touches nalang. We don't see any problems occurring, we are right on schedule," Ali said in an interview Tuesday. The two projects are set to be completed within their 2009 December targets.

The P1.5 billion, 58-kilometer Talaingod-Bukidnon road will connect Davao del Norte's Talaingod municipality with Bukidnon's San Fernando town and is about 95.43% complete, Director Ali said.

With its completion, the road will serve as an alternate route from the present Davao Calinan-Bukidnon road and Agusan Davao Road.

While the 84-kilometer Manay to Boston section, part of the Surigao-Davao coastal Road program, is about 95.60% complete. According to Ali, it will also be finished on time by December.

The contractors were specifically instructed to follow a 24-hour, seven days a week (24/7) work schedule to be able to meet the target deadlines.

Ali said no less than President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will grace the inauguration of these two big-ticket projects, which are two of the President's infrastructure programs under her Super Regions plan, which she committed in her 2006 State-of-the-Nation Address. (PIA 11)