MALACAÑANG on Thursday unveiled an P8.2-trillion plan to build new roads, bridges and transport facilities for the next six years, promising a “golden age of infrastructure development.”

tableThree Cabinet officials – Socioeconomic Planning chief Ernesto Pernia, Transportation Secretary Arthur Tugade and Public Works Secretary Mark Villar – vowed to complete the projects in three to five years, before the end of President Rodrigo Duterte’s term.

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