AFTER the asphalting of its runway this month, the Mactan-Cebu International Airport Authority (MCIAA) will renovate one of its four taxiways in the amount of P100 million, either by the end of 2018 or the first quarter of 2019.

MCIAA Assistant General Manager Glenn Napuli said the aircraft can still move from the runway to the terminal as there are still three other taxiways available.

The remaining taxiways will be repaired next year.

Napuli said the MCIAA management and board discussed the project after Department of Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade inspected the taxiways and found that there are potholes that endangered the public.

DOTr is the mother government agency of public transportation offices, such as the MCIAA, the Cebu Port Authority (CPA), the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina), the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), and the Land Transportation Office (LTO).

On the newly asphalted runway, Napuli said it will last for another 10 years.

The runway was closed for five hours a day, from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m., from Sept. 1 to Sept. 21 to make way for the project.

Napuli said the four contractors of the runway asphalting project were supposed to finish it by Sept. 19, or two days ahead of schedule.

However, it was completed on the scheduled date because the project was stopped for two days because of Typhoon Ompong. (EOB)